It's Christmas!

Christmas!!

Whew!  Christmas: we ate too much, the girls got too many presents, we slept in until 9:00 a.m., visited with family and had the best time! Well that sums it up but I'll give a few more details. Lance and I were really prepared for Christmas this year and had everything bought a few weeks before crunch time. Myka and Adri wrote their letters to Santa for the first time. I wish that I thought to take pictures! Myka wrote a combination of lines and the few letters that she knows in neat rows on her page then she brew pictures all around the edges and at the bottom. Adri wrote her lines and added her pictures to the bottom. They were so cute! Myka insisted that she wanted My Little Pony's for Christmas and Adri just wanted dinosaurs. We were so happy to wake up and find that Santa had gotten their letters and granted their wishes and then some. But before that, we had Christmas Eve dinner with Charity and Matt and their family. It's becoming a tradition since we have done it for the last few years. I thought that we were going to have to roll us out the door. Dinner was wonderful, needless to say, but the best part was that Myka and Adri had their first candle light dinner. They thought that it was pretty awesome. Then home we went for our own little Christmas tradition. New pajamas for Adri and Myka and our bedtime stories of "I Believe in Santa" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas." And it only took a quick 'call' to Bernard (Santa's head elf) and lots of snuggles and kisses to get the girls to stay tucked up in bed for the rest of the night. The rest is history. This year instead of traveling to our parents houses, Lance and I decided that we would just give them calls to wish them Merry Christmas and stay home so that the girls could play with all of their new toys and rule the day. It was wonderful and we still got to see my parents and little sisters because they traveled to see us! We were so blessed to be able to, once again, spoil our daughters for Christmas and also to have such a wonderful family. We love our Savior and hope and pray that we are teaching our girls that even though presents are great, it's the gifts that our Savior Jesus Christ has given us that are the most important part of Christmas. I think that they get it. We hope that you all had a magical Christmas!