Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful, relaxing time celebrating Christmas at home this year. Nana and B-pa flew in on Christmas eve and we went to our church's Christmas eve service, then we had a fondue dinner at home and the kids put out cookies for Santa and went to bed. Santa's elves only had one big present to put together this Christmas, so it was a pretty early night for us, also.
On Christmas morning, Emma and Ian woke up to see if Santa had visited...

Coming down the stairs

Emma was really excited about her new scooter

and she pointed out Ian's present, a train table!

Then it was time for stockings

The stockings are empty so time for breakfast

Nana and Emma read one of her new books from her stocking while "the chef" prepares breakfast

Dan is the pancake maker in our house, so the first present that he got to open were pancake making accessories from the kids.

Now we can have jungle animal pancakes

After breakfast it was time for presents!

Ian got lots of new additions to his train table, which he had to try out immediately

Emma loved her Rapunzel tower from cousin Erin

and her Little Miss Muffin
We spent most of the morning opening presents and then had a relaxing afternoon playing with new toys and watching new movies followed by a yummy Christmas dinner.

A few more fun holiday pictures; Ian dressed as Santa

Enjoying a candy cane
After Christmas, Dan went to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl and brought back some fun treats...


It was a great holiday, but it is always nice to get back into our normal routine.