Christmas Day

Our Christmas day was actually fairly calm. Because we had just gotten back in town late on the 23rd and I worked all day on the 24th, we had everything done way ahead of time. Todd's parents and sister were in South Carolina celebrating Christmas. One of my sisters and her husband were with his family, and my other sister and parents opened presents at their house and came over later in the day. I have to say it was strangely quiet, but also sort of nice. We were done opening presents in about an hour, not counting all of the time that it took to actually open all of the toys and sort Legos. Yep, you read that right - we sorted Legos. For about 3.5 hours. Oh.my.goodness. It was insane! We bought these Lego storage things for the kids (well, maybe more for me) so we sat there, across the family room, sorting Legos. I really think I love it though :)

Kate with her Santa loot - her favorite was the "Barbie Fashion Doll with a Horse"  (the only thing she asked Santa for this year)

It was a Transformer Christmas for Brett... Santa shops at Target during the end-of-summer toy clearance :)

Kate's new baby cradle from Memere and Poppy - it looks great in her room :)

Kate had a very princess Christmas from the Crovitz family!  Memere won the princess basket at the Harvest Moon Festival back in the fall, so many of the things in it were gifted to Kate for Christmas, like this table and chairs that converts to...

Rapunzel's Tower!  How cool is that?!

My Dad, like Todd, enjoys some toys as part of Christmas.  We used to have bubble lights on "his" tree, but they all sort of died out.  When I saw these over the summer, I had to get them!

A little Christmas Day movie - this year's feature was "The Lion King" from Aunt Dithy!