Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas!

We spent Christmas Eve together as a family...and it was pretty low key.. Charlee wasn't feeling the best so she did a lot of snuggling which isn't that normal for Charlee but it was wonderful and by the end of the night she was feeling pretty good.

So the rest of the family went to Christmas Eve service and Charlee and mom stayed home to make sure Charlee was feeling okay and to get everything cooking:)

Then we had dinner Mimi, grandpa, papa John, grandma Mary, Dad, Charlee Zoey and I.. it was wonderful!! Then we opened up one gift and it was new Christmas jams and they were so cute and the girls hurried to put them on get cookies out for Santa and get to bed.. so Santa could come! Grandma Mary and Papa John spent the night and it is so fun to spend time with them!

And boy did he come.. we had so many present under our tree on Christmas morning.. it was wonderful! Zoey woke up about 7 AM and she was shocked that Santa had eat the cookies drank the milk and the reindeers had even had the carrots!

We then got busy opening presents. Every present that Charlee would open she would look at you and and say.. "its a box" and then I would say.. whats in it Charlee and she would say.. "I don't know Mama".. it was wonderful!

She had a great time opening presents but didn't want to take turns. Then about half was through the present opening, Charlee got hungry and didn't like anything else that she got.. so we had to take a break and have some breakfast. It was a wonderful morning of opening present and playing, playing and playing!

Charlee loved the Rody that Santa brought her!

Checking out the goods in the stocking!

Getting in the swing of things!

more time with Rody!

Charlee took a nap and then we headed to Vinton to see both sets of the great grandparents and then did some night sledding at Mimi and Grandpa's. It was a wonderful Christmas day!

The magic of the season

I know this picture is a little hard to see but this is what Christmas is all about a happy little gal standing by tree loving Christmas!

Charlee is doing great and having lots of fun!

She is still working on the potty training but it is so cute. She now calls her little potty the little frog and the big normal potty is called the big frog. It is just to cute! Other then a lot of talk we aren't showing a ton of progress on the potty front but it will come.

Say Cheese

We have had a busy Holiday season but have made it a point to slow down and appreciate the little stuff as well... this afternoon at snack I though this was a perfect example of having fun with the little stuff!

Charlee wants nothing to do with Santa but she has had plenty of fun with Ellfy our elf and she knows.. Don't touch Ellfy!

Picking out the tree

It is an Austin family tradition that the day after Thanksgiving we go and pick out our Christmas tree! This year was no different. We went out to lunch at the family favorite Peppers and then headed to Waverly to pick out the tree.

We didn't have to argue with the girls about who's turn it was to pick out the tree.. Char feel asleep:)

The drive to Waverly is a little long and with a full tummy this is what happened to Charlee....












After we got the tree up and the house was starting to look a little bit like Christmas we head down town to Holiday Hoopla and it was FUN!! We got to see Santa, and then the fireworks were great! Charlee loved them!!

After the fireworks we headed to get some hot chocolate and then home to bed after a long fun day!