Christmas morning...

Our first Christmas in the new house - and what a Christmas!!! I woke up at 5:00 a.m. to go to the bathroom and couldn't go back to sleep. Every little noise in the house and I thought it was Grace coming down... I was just so excited! I'd finally fallen back to sleep around 8:00 a.m., when at 8:10 a.m. Grace came running in yelling, "Daddy, Mommy, get out of bed!!! Santa was here! Santa was here!" So I went up to get Eva who was still asleep:-) Eva saw her little black dress shoes from church by the stairs and instead I put them on, well dress shoes don't go on bare feet easily, so I only had one shoe on when we hit the landing and Eva saw the kitchen set. Of course after that she wanted down! It was so cute too b/c here she was tired, wearing only one shoe (a dress shoe at that) stumbling around their new kitchen set cooking:-) She looked like a little drunk old lady, but the most important thing - she was so HAPPY! I was in heaven.

Grace of course loved everything, the kitchen set, her dogs and all their accessories, and she was very into opening presents... where Eva, half the time when you gave her a present she thought it was for someone else and passed it on... they don't stay at this stage long, I know. But both girls were great, loved what they got but weren't too spoiled about it. What a wonderful morning!

If that wasn't enough, after we'd opened everything Nanni, Poppy and Uncle Rob came over to visit - they'd actually skipped going to Bloomington this year so they could come see the girls... sweet, huh? Eva loved showing off everything, and cooked meals for everyone. Grace my little drama queen, who is always singing and dancing non-stop, I seriously can't get her to stop, was too shy to do the High School Musical wii game she'd gotten in front of everyone (basically singing w/ a microphone to HSM songs). But makes me think - is she feeling okay?? Can't be my Grace??