We spent Christmas Eve day cleaning the house for Santa to visit. The upstairs looked pretty good, but the downstairs was another story! I can't keep up with these kids when they're home all day! It was nice to have the upstairs all clean for a couple of hours though - we still can't get it back that way! We went to Paige's house for dinner with the sisters and G&G. Paige & Dan gave us our present - vacuum seal lids that fit any container. That was a good idea and I've already used one to cover our bowl of strawberries - seems to work well! The girls were happy leaving for the first time since they knew we had fun waiting for us at home! First thing we did was let them open their Christmas Eve present since they'd been waiting all day. It was new PJs of course and they loved them! Then we tried to read Luke 2, but it didn't go as well as I would have liked. They were too excited. But Emily knows the story pretty good now. We got our stockings ready for Santa, as well as the milk, cookies and carrots (for the reindeer). We also read "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Since we finished all our traditions before bedtime, we played, "Don't Eat Christmas" for about 20 minutes! (I sure hope that doesn't become a tradition!) The girls fell asleep reasonably fast for being Christmas Eve!!
Christmas morning I was able to get the Cinnamon rolls in the oven before I heard stirring. They'd been warned to stay in their room, and they did well. We were able to video tape them coming out to see the presents. It sure was hard to restrain their excitement and try to maintain some semblemce of order! We got them to look through their stockings and take turns opening the Santa presents. Emily found the pickle on the tree, so she got to open the first present. She sure was thrilled with her Cinderella costume and wore it for the rest of the day! Ella was excited to get her FurReal Kitty as well. Steve got the game Apples to Apples and I got a digital picture frame. Eden even got an outfit to wear home from the hospital! We actually got the girls to take a break to eat some cinnamon rolls before we dug in on the family presents. We did stretch the stockings, Santa gifts, and breakfast into about 1 1/2 hours! The rest of the gift opening took about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Emily was under the tree half the morning pulling out the presents even though we kept telling her it was daddy's job. Steve got the family a lot of Wii assessories, so we've been enjoying the Wii again. Emily got a Princess Wii game and has already beaten it twice and is on her third go-around! Glad she likes it! Ella's favorite present was from Emily - a baby doll with bathtub assessories. She played with that thing constantly for several days! Both Emily and Ella got another year scrapbook from me. My biggest surprises were the digital photo frame and gold earrings from Losee Jewelry. Mom and Dad stopped by right after we finished opening presents. It was a super day - except for some reason Eden was extra, extra active and I was having a lot of contractions. Guess she wanted to be part of the fun! We spent the day playing Wii, Hungry, Hungry Hippos and resting. The girls are very sad that Christmas is over and are now constantly talking about the baby! I guess they thought she would come RIGHT after Christmas! Today I have my doctor's appointment and we will set an induction date! Then we'll have to make a countdown chain for her!!
3 comments:
What a fun Christmas at the Asp household! Sounds like the girls had a great one. By the way, the whole "Santa's Watching" thing doesn't work over here either. I think they were worse right before Christmas than the rest of the year. Oh well, good thing Santa's forgiving.
What fun! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Your girls are beautiful! Santa is watching worked well for us. Daddy even has Santa's Cell Phone number. :)
Fun pictures of a wonderful Christmas! You and Steve know how to make it magic. Those are two lucky little girls. We were glad to be able to share in some of the excitement.
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