Germany Journals: Christmas 2011!!

We had a fantastic Christmas this year. We decided that it would be a good idea to give the wild woman some gifts here and there so it was complete overload on Christmas day. Mimi and Oma's box came early some we gave her all of Oma's gifts on the days leading up to Christmas and 1/2 of Mimi's Christmas Eve Eve and Christmas Eve. She loved it! We would ask her if she would like a present and she would start stomping and clapping yelling "CITED CITED" haha I don't know who it was more fun for, us or her. Then Poppa Marty's box came in and we had to open that one too!! He picked out a really sweet nice outfit, silky jammies with kitties on them, sweatpants and sweat shirt, and some socks. For the first time in days, she had clothes on! haha She had to wear the silky kitty jammies!Then we played with her goodies! Ben had off for 6 days so that in it's self was an awesome gift!

My Dad's side of the family always had Christmas on Christmas Eve so we always went there. This year we didn't go home so we went to the Christmas Eve service at our church. I'd never been to a candle light service, so I was excited. It was really special. Audrey had a great time in the nursery playing with the kiddos and tickling the babies :) We came home, got Aud ready for bed and we got to work! My mentor from church kept Audrey for a few hours before Christmas so Ben and I could get wrapping done and toys put together. We set it all out and went to bed!

The wild woman slept in till 0630 ( I should have known better, that is soo rare, that something was coming) We started opening gifts right away and didn't finish until around 1130. It was so much fun! She would open one and play, help us open one, then ask for another. She was soo excited. We got to skype my Mom and sisters so they could see her open a few.

We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and went back to playing. For early lunch I made Ben a family tradition his family had, sausage gravy over biscuits. We all laid down and had a good nap! We got up, played some more and had a special dinner- filet mignon! I was pretty nervous about it but cut it from the tenderloin myself and grilled it on my gril pan. Ben took Audrey and Beretta out for a long walk while I got dinner together.

Here's some pictures from Christmas Eve and a few from Christmas day. We did video instead of taking a bunch of pictures Christmas morning.

I was trying to get some nice pictures of her in her Steeler get up but this is what I got :)

Ben told her to show Momma your teeth, she pointed them out so I wouldn't have any doubts where they were haha She's the best!

I can't tell you how long it took to TRY and get a decent picture of all three of them, I was soo funny and I think I like the attempts better anyways :)