Three Days of Christmas

Our Christmas started on the 23th and we were all very tired by Christmas night. But it was so nice to see all of our family and have them celebrate Kate's first Christmas with us. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

At Great Grandma and Grandpa Bender's house

Kate's loot from GG

Helping Daddy put together the play kitchen

Santa came!



Riding on her new tricycle from Great Grandma and Grandpa Bender


After opening all her presents instead of playing with her toys she plays with Bella's

All her loot after Christmas morning and we still had two more Christmases to go to. I had to go to Target today to get a shelf for all her new books and toys!

Santa

I wanted to share some pictures of Kate and Santa that were taken at a Christmas party over the weekend. As you can tell she really was too impressed. I hope everyone has a safe and merry Christmas!

Stranger Danger!

Oh wait you have a present for me?!?

St Nicholas Day

Yesterday was St Nicholas Day and since Jeff celebrated this holiday as a child we wanted to incorporate it into our Christmas traditions. Basically, St Nicholas brings you gifts and candy and puts them in your stocking on December 6th. I had never heard of this holiday until I met Jeff. When I was little we opened our stockings Christmas morning. It was something for us to do while we waited for my mom to get home, she works the night shift, or while my parents got a couple more minutes of shut eye.

She screamed when she saw the Elmo book. She just loves her Elmo!