Ward Christmas party.
Mall Santa.
Tanner family party.
Getting new dresses from grandma and forcing smiles in front of the Christmas tree while rushing to church.
School parties.Greenwood sing-in.
Preschool Polar Express Day.
Decorating cookies for Santa.
Having Grandma and Grandpa come visit!
Watching Polar Express over and over and then reenacting it over and over.
Christmas parties! At Lynnie's house.
During the White Elephant exchange, Ella opened the biggest box and ended up with the smallest toy!
Emily loved her bear!
Samantha was a good sport about the Darth Vader mask she got!
Tanner party.
Leaving cookies and milk out for Santa!
More presents than you know what to do with!!!
Laying the stockings with care on the couch.
J is for Jesus. Emily taught us that one.
Opening stockings first! At 7:00 on the dot!
Finding the Christmas pickle so you get to open the Santa present first!
Opening Santa presents and finding out you got what you asked for!!
New scrapbooks from mom.
Getting things you didn't even know you wanted!
Small meltdowns during the day.
Realizing true joy come from tearing into the paper, not the gift inside.
Not being able to walk through the room, but really not caring.
The tree looks empty again.
Realizing that sisters have to share a lot.
But also getting your own stash of presents.
Realizing the sometimes Christmas means quantity.
Spending the day playing with all your new toys!
(And mom wishing she could go back to being a 4 year old and having a kitchen as cute as this one!)
We had a wonderful Christmas!! The girls are still in the PERFECT age!!! Emily was really into being nice this year and naughty threats really worked for her. Ella just kept saying the cutest things all day..."I just LOVE Christmas. Today is the BEST day ever!! I just LOVE all my presents! Oh, it's just what I wanted! Mom, you're the best mom ever!" Eden lasted through the whole 4.25 hours of unwrapping before wanting her nap. We were blessed with lots of presents this year, thanks to my frugal bargain shopping the last 6 months and thanks to a large clothing donation in our stake a few weeks back. (Steve and I got whole new wardrobes! And we both had a TON of presents to open this year! I also put all my teacher gifts under the tree.) It was a wonderful day and today we're enjoying after-Christmas sales and playing with all our gifts!
