{christmas day}

With the excitement of Santa coming and Johnny (our elf on the shelf) reporting daily naughty and nice behavior, Christmas has been much anticipated around here!  This was "the year" for me.  Having both kids truly get it all.  They hold the magic in them and it just boils out all the time!  The magic that leaves once the believing in Santa stops as a kid, was back in full force this year!!  Makes my heart happy to see them so happy and excited.

We met up with Santa at the mall a few weeks ago.  Cash was fine, Clara cried.  Cash asked for a few dinosaurs and Clara asked for pink and purple candy.  Easy enough!  I found pink and purple candy canes at CVS last weekend and BJ had the great idea of giving Cash back his dinos that he had gotten "thrown out" for hitting us over the last few months.  Plus we had already planned to get them both new bikes. 

The pure excitement was captured on Christmas morning!  Despite going to bed late on Christmas Eve, Cash was up at 4:45.  I made him lay with me until 5 when we woke up BJ and Clara.  Our Christmas was over by 6am!  By 7am, BJ and I had devoured an entire pot of coffee!  It was exhausting however, I remember doing the exact same thing as a kid!! 


                                                              Magic Captured:

 

 

We stayed home and played with all our new things until NAPTIME....we needed it!  Then we headed out to Grandma Peggy and Grandpa Bill's for prime rib.  They had a cute little kiddie table set up for Cash and Clara that included tiny champagne glasses.  They loved pouring glasses of water and drinking out of them!  We had a nice time out there catching up with everyone while the kids played with Legos and the Doctor set that we brought out for them.  It was a super fun Christmas this year!  Currently, our tree has been taken down and all the decorations are boxed up and ready to head back to storage! 

                                         ....and a self-timer family pic!