Christmas Day

Christmas morning at our house was SO much fun.  I think every year just gets better.  Handley came in our room at 7 AM and woke me up.  It was still pretty dark out and she thought it was still night time.  She told me, "I just can't wait in my room any longer to see if Santa came."  I told her that she was in luck because it was morning time and that we could start waking everyone up.  Harper woke up shortly after that and we all got ready to head downstairs.

As they came down the stairs Handley exclaimed, "Yes!!!  He came!!!"  She was thrilled to see that the things she asked him for were delivered.  She and Harper went right to playing with all of their things.

Harper's pile from Santa (lots is for them to share though)

Handley's stuff from Santa (but she is sharing her things too)

Harper loved the life-like shopping cart and her new baby.  Handley was beside herself with her new princess scooter, blender, and her hoola-hoop.  They both spent lots of time with the cash register and all of their stocking goodies.  Handley kept repeating, "I'm just SO excited."

Her face when she saw her stuff

After seeing all their stuff from Santa we enjoyed a delicious breakfast prepared by Gigi and Papa and then opened gifts.  Harper could have cared less what was actually in them, but loved ripping the paper off.  She kept asking, "presents, me?" and pointing to herself.

After opening and getting dressed we loaded up the car (including the new princess scooter) to head to my parents house.  When we arrived we had dinner and opened more gifts.  As usual the girls were spoiled by their grandparents.  We had planned to let the girls open their gifts and then after they went to bed the rest of us would open ours. Handley was oblivious to this and while opening a heaping mound of presents she asked, "Mommy, do you not have any presents?" Ha!  

It was a wonderful day and, although it meant a long car ride, I am so thankful that we were able to spend it with both of our families and that the girls got to see both sets of grandparents on Christmas Day!