We had a wonderful Christmas day! Elly actually let us sleep in a little bit...probably from being up late the night before and all of the excitement! I'm betting that won't last many more years, if any! We brought her straight out to her presents when she woke up and she just kind of slowly walked around looking at everything and taking it all in. She'd stop at each thing and want to sit and play with it and would get upset when we kept trying to show her other gifts. Her kitchen set was the last gift she got to and she didn't waste anytime starting to play with that! It was hard to get her away from it!
We finally did though and she enjoyed unwrapping a few presents too!
Trying out her new doctor set on her new baby! She knew exactly what to do! Wonder why?!!
Just playing with all her new stuff! And no, that's not a real bottle! It was the new one that came with her baby :)
Laying down on her new bean bag with her new baby and covering up with the blanket I made her!
Right about the time we were finishing up opening presents, my mom and Dave got here. We had a wonderful breakfast and then Elly had more to open...and so did we! This was her posing with her new apron, hat, and mitt Grammy got her to go with her kitchen!
Checking out the grocery cart Grammy got her!
And playing in her new tent!
Once we were finally done, we decided to go outside and play in the snow! We were so lucky to have a white Christmas!
Snowball fight!!
Elly thought it was great!
After that, we came back in to warm up and realized we had a few more gifts to do. My mom always gets a can of black olives in her stocking and we always take a picture of it! I think it was a tradition started when her and my Dad were first married and I've kept it going as long as I've been old enough to buy her gifts on my own.
Ahh..Finally done! Naptime!
Normally we would be done for the day, but because of everything being in disarray because of Casey's Grandma, we had not gotten to exchange gifts with his parents so we headed over there for the evening. Elly got a tricycle!! She jumped right on and was ready to go!
Poor girl was so sick of opening presents, we had to bribe her with candy to keep going! Isn't that sad?! She sure is blessed and I pray that I will teach her to be grateful and very giving herself.
Back at home - our living room at the end of the day! I cannot stand going to bed without picking up but I definitely made an exception this night!
And this is Elly in her Christmas dress. We had to miss Christmas Eve service at church because of the last minute change in plans to have Casey's family at our house so Elly didn't have a chance to wear her Christmas dress until the Sunday after Christmas. This was the best picture I could get that morning, but isn't she just adorable?!! She made this Christmas one of the best ever!!
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