Better Late than Never: Christmas Morning!

Going through all the photos, I broke Christmas Day up into two posts! So today and tomorrow we'll re-cap our family Christmas!


Christmas morning I woke Tim up and we got some quick things done and I literally ran in to wake up the girls and tell them it was Christmas morning! I think I said, "wake up angels, it's Christmas morning, Jesus' Birthday and Santa came!" all in one breath! 


I waited ever-so patiently for them to finish their bottles and we headed downstairs!


Once we had everything ready, we let the chicks out of the pen! They were so excited that they could FINALLY go and touch the tree and presents!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Natalee's face in this photo!!! Cracks me up!

Madelynn kept touching/tickling the baby and saying "baby"....it was priceless!

They were so into it! I was so happy! Tim and I kept looking at each other and smiling, realizing this was such a great "real" first Christmas as a family! And to think next year, the girls will be even more understanding of Jesus' Birthday and Santa, and there will be another little girl joining our family! I look forward to EVERY day and EVERY holiday celebrating with this family, my family, the family God so blessed me with!

A cell phone!!!

Natalee examined her new video, Veggie Tales Christmas! She looked at for a good minute!

Some of the stuff, I wrapped so long ago, I forgot what was in the packages!

Madelynn and her bows! She loved the bows, and almost always had two of them in her hands! She is such a DIVA!

We decided before Christmas and their birthday to get some practical things since they are inundated with toys all of the time, but of course I had to get them a few fun things! They got some fake cell phones, baby dolls, Elmos, blocks (in the bag above from their God-Daddy, Uncle Nathan) a Pooh bath-mat, sippy-cups, bath toys, some books, clothes and other toys (from Nana, Grandma and Grandpa), some other cute stuffed animals, and who knows what else. I can't remember everything, but of course they were spoiled by everyone who loves them!


Thank you all who got them wonderful gifts!!


Before we knew it, they had ripped through everything, and it was time for Mommy and Daddy to open gifts!


Tim got me a beautiful pearl and sapphire ring that I wanted, shocker! He is terrible at keeping secrets even though he doesn't tell me what he gets, it's so obvious! He also got me some cami's, an awesome camera strap cover from Etsy that I was dying for and some new dishes (still waiting for some more to arrive that I bought with gift-cards so when they all get here and I clean out all my existing cabinets, I will post about them!!). I got a bunch of other wonderful things from family and friends!


Tim got some lounge pants, shirts, pants, a snow hat, golf gift-cards, Flyers hats, a Phillies sweat shirt, a new football, and Cabela's gift-cards for a new cross-bow that he is dying for!


All and all it was a great Christmas morning and we were looking forward to spending the rest of the day with my extended family. So we packed up and headed over to my parents to open gifts, feed the girls lunch and put them down for nap before everyone arrived.


I was SO excited to put the girls in their beautiful Christmas dresses that their Nana, Great-Nana and all their great-Aunts bought them!