Christmas Day

I love Christmas morning. There's something so magic about going to bed with nothing under the tree and waking up with presents.

We put Lucy and Jenna to sleep on Christmas Eve and then continued to get ready for bed ourselves and finish up things around the house (wink, wink). All was quiet in the crib (not a creature was stirring...) so I assumed they were both asleep. Adam walked passed at one point, glanced in and burst out laughing at this:

Not asleep at all!! You think they're excited for Santa? I thought we had a few years before this set in...

We got up Christmas morning and sure enough, Santa had come!

We let the girls open their presents first since they were too excited to wait.

(Don't be fooled--sometimes they show their excitement through crying and/or sleeping)

Check out Lucy unwrapping her own gift!

Each girl got a book, an outfit and a toy to share. Lovely.

Then we opened our presents.

I ended up surprising Adam with one of his gifts and he loved it! I rarely ever actually surprise him, so this was fun.

He got me lots of great things and one of my favorites ended up being a book on how to take better digital photos (something he thought of all on his own--well done, love!). I said before I spend the money to get an SLR camera I want to really understand cameras and photography, so I'm excited to have this resource to help me!

We (Adam) made delicious homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast which we've decided is going to be our tradition in the future.

We also had eggs and toast and bacon and orange juice and eggnog--I love Christmas breakfast!

After that we all decided to take a family nap in Mom & Dad's bed. Jenna had a hard time at first, but Lucy calmed her down (ahhHHHhhh).

Then it was time to get the girls dressed again so we could go to family's. I put them in their new Christmas dresses. Pardon the plethora of pictures, but it's so impossible to narrow down a favorite (or twenty favorites). Man, I'm crazy about these two faces.

 Classic Jenna all scrunched up. Classic Lucy all stretched out.

We spent Christmas night with the Browns (my family). It was fun to have so many family members in town and catch up with everyone.

Both families were so thoughtful and generous with their gifts. Adam and I are so grateful.

We had such a great holiday! We loved so much having Jenna and Lucy and being able to celebrate and be home with our little family of four. And we love living close to parents and siblings so we were able to see so many loved ones in the evenings. With the girls only being five weeks old (and it still being flu season and all) we opted to stay home from the really big family gatherings (extended Hocks and extended McPhies). We were sad to miss out and sad we couldn't show off our daughters yet, but better safe than sorry. Hopefully we'll catch everyone at the next gathering (Easter?).

Anyway, WONDERFUL Christmas! Hope yours was just as great!