Sunday, January 3, 2010

Christmas 2009

We had the best Christmas and I'm so sad that it's all over! I felt like we had a really short Christmas season this year, since we were gone the 1st week in December and then we had Hannah's birthday, but we enjoyed all of the Christmas fun that we were able to squeeze in. Hannah was totally into it this year and it made it so much fun! It's so fun to see the excitement of Christmas through the kids! Lots of pictures, but I had to include everything that made our Christmas so perfect...

Christmas Eve. day, it started snowing and the girls stood at the window and watched the snow fall forever!

We went to the Family Christmas Eve. Service at church and both girls really enjoyed it. Hannah was so excited to see Baby Jesus! We came home and ate tamales, decorated cookies for Santa and then Hannah wanted to dance to Christmas music.
Trying to get Wally to join in on the dance party!
Alice Anne was not into decorating the cookies. She wanted to see how fast she could shove them in her mouth and Hannah decided to eat all the sprinkles before Alice Anne got to them.
Hannah wrote her letter to Santa and put out her cookies and milk for him and an apple for the reindeer. She was so worried that Santa would be too loud and wake her up and she made me promise her that Santa wouldn't wake her up.
Santa must have been impressed with the girls this year because they raked it in! Hannah's big request was a dollhouse and Alice Anne got her own tricycle. Hannah was so funny...when we were leaving church on Christmas Eve, some people had their umbrellas and Hannah suddenly remembered that she forgot to tell Santa that she wanted an umbrella, so we made an emergency phone call to the elves and Santa worked some miracles and brought an umbrella for each girl. Hannah thought it was so cool that he pulled that off last minute!
How pretty is this...our backyard on Christmas morning. It's so white, you can barely even see Wally!
Waiting on the stairs to come down and see what Santa left
She was so proud of her very own tricycle!
Time for Alice Anne to take a nap, mommy to load the car, and Hannah and Daddy got to play in the snow
Not sure who had more fun...daddy or Hannah
Hannah eating her snowball
Then we headed to Waco
Sweet Cousins...
and sweet sisters!
Hannah's favorite thing to do at Jammy and Papa's is to look through photo albums, so Jammy made Hannah her very own photo album and loves looking through it!
Reading with Grandpop
Kisses for Granny
Kisses for mommy before bed after a long Christmas day!
Playing on the trampoline from Jammy and Papa
Hannah ADORES Carter!!

2 comments:

ELMORE said...

I love the snow pictures! We did not get to see it since we were in Houston. So sweet that Hannah likes to look at the photo albums :)

Lane Olson said...

love the snowball picture. i'm sad we missed it too.