Christmas Day

I have never had a more relaxing Christmas Day, in my life!  This is the 1st year that we stayed home.  The weekend before Christmas we celebrated with my family.  And on Christmas Eve, we celebrated with Stephen's family.  So Christmas Day was just the four of us!!!  I don't think I ever got out of my pjs.  Since we had our big Christmas dinner the night before, we had left overs galore so I didn't even have to cook! 

This was the 1st year that Hailey was really able to appericate all that Santa does.  She woke up and we all walked into the the living.  I have video buuuuuut the picture below is the only one I took!!!!  I can't believe it.  Santa brought her a Dora 4-wheeler to which her reply shortly after seeing it was, "I don't like it".  Thankfully that wore off by the end of the day and she was cruising the house in no time!

 

Dying to go play with her new toys. 

Christmas photo shoot.  I have pictures of Hailey in this dress too, somewhere.

Hailey at the park later that day with Daddy cruising on her 4-wheeler.



Christmas Eve

Since we were in town for Christmas this year,we had Stephen's family over to our house on Christmas Eve.  We had our big dinner that night.  It was so nice to be home!

Hailey and I making cookies for Santa.

                               After dinner, Hailey got to open her presents from Memaw and Papa.

Hannah was asleep when we started opening presents so Hailey got to open hers.  Hailey holding up Hannah's new jammies.

 Hailey got a really cool United States interactive map.  It has seven different things you can do.  The state capitals, trees, animals etc.



Dallas Family Christmas

The weekend before Christmas we went to Dallas to see all my cousins and their families.  I hadn't seen most of them since Hailey's 1st Christmas!!!!  Way too long.  We loaded up and headed north to my cousin's house.  As soon as we got there Hannah started screaming  and did not stop for right at an hour straight.  I don't recall if I've shared this or not but one of the many reasons why I'm so far behind on posting is because we had a rough first couple of months.  Hannah would not go to sleep without putting up the biggest fight.  She would scream like someone broke her arm.  I was about the only one that could calm her down and it still took me a while to do so.  She had to be bounced a certain way and you could not sit down with her, had to keep moving.  Well this night was reminiscent of that.  Needless to say, it was a hectic evening.  She finally crashed out but I was on pins and needles hoping she wouldn't wake up screaming again.  Despite that little hiccup, we had a great time.  It was so good to see everyone and all the kids.  All of my cousins have kiddos ranging from a teenager, (just one right now but very close to more) to Hannah who was a few months old.  I didn't get any pictures from there!!!  Thankfully there are pictures, I just don't have access to them at the present moment. 

From there we went to my brother and sister-in-laws house to stay the rest of weekend. As always we had a great time.  We opened presents and had our Christmas then but I can't seem to find those pictures either...I know I took some... that makes me sad.  Oh well, here are a few to tied you over.

Scary man, I mean Santa Clause

I was dying to take the girls to see Santa Clause however I knew it might not go well.  Hailey is at that age where she's leery of strangers.  Stephen wasn't nearly as excited as I was about the idea of Santa pictures.  He knew that Hailey was not going to go for it and didn't understand why I would torture her for my own enjoyment.  Sounds awfully dramatic when you put it like that! Nonetheless, to the mall we went.  We had been hyping it up to her for a week.  She was excited when we got there and good the whole time in line. 

Then it was our turn...  Hannah could have cared less.  Hailey on the other hand would not let go of me. 

 She stiffened up like a board. I tried to set her on Santa's lap and she

tired to lung out of his lap. 

The pictures a little blurry but you get the point. 

Santa was not very nice either.  He got an attitude with me at one point then was made that Hailey didn't want his stupid little bell and threw it back in the bowl.  HELLO, you're a mall Santa.  Shouldn't you expect crying kids?!?!  Anyways, we hung the pictures up on the frig for a while and Hailey would ask to look at it all the time.  We would ask her what she was doing in the picture to which she would reply, "I was crying.  Santa scared me".  So, until next year Santa...Ho!Ho!Ho!

Christmas fun

I love that Hailey is old enough to participate in all the holiday fun!!!  I love this time of year and love sharing it with her.  We made some holiday cookies and decorated them. 

Then, her and Stephen went and picked out a Christmas tree.  They did a great job!  Stephen doesn't mind getting the tree...decorating it is another story.  That's pretty much my job which I love so I don't mind at all.  This year though, I had a little helper.