We had a very quiet Christmas Day, as for the first time, my parents were unable to make the trip down. We opened gifts in the morning and then watched a movie in the afternoon, before having a nice, quiet dinner. The girls are older, so the excitement is different - and it was a bit emotional not having my parents here. Times change. Lee and I did our best to make things special and nice for the girls and in the end, we had a nice day.
He came!
Opening stockings.
Santa knows Elizabeth well - a book about Greek Gods!
And he brought Emily the movie she's been asking for!
Mommy and Daddy got Emily what she had been begging for - a canopy!
Soccer warm up pants.
Another movie.
Lee got a new iPhone last month, as an early Christmas gift. I felt badly that he only had one or two gifts under the tree, so I wrapped up a photo of his new phone....the girls thought that it was hilarious.
Hero Dad mug from Emily for his tea.
Sporting sweatshirt.
T-shirt from Uncle Mike and Auntie Kelly.
Petrified wood from Uncle Mike and Auntie Kelly.
We dragged it out for a long, long time. She only had a couple of gifts to open and was starting to look very worried. And then Lee shoved a package toward her that she hadn't seen because it was buried so far back under the tree. Absolute bliss.
Walter White figurine.
On Monday, we found that Nick had wrapped himself to one of our dining room chairs!
On Tuesday, Nick got caught up on all of our family adventures.
As is his tradition, Nick was in the tree on Christmas Eve, waiting to fly home with Santa. Good-bye Nick! Until next year....
