Festivities continued Christmas morning with Ella waking up me and Michael. Addy wasn't too excited to get up until I reminded her that Santa had come, then she jumped out of bed. Present fun here with the 4 of us. Was kind of surprised that Ella had zero interest in opening gifts. She was actually more interested in Addy's Santa gifts (big surprise). Then presents at Dad and Mary's topped off with too much good food at brunch. Home for a bit of a nap then to Jean's for presents and a great dinner with everyone - the Densons, Wolfs, Berhows, Pflugers and Kellys. We are so lucky that all the families have just melded together and a good time is always had by all!
Then due to scheduling conflicts, we got to have a belated Christmas with the Wolfs and Berhows on Monday morning. Was just like Christmas morning, except the day after! It was great being able to celebrate with Heidi on her first Christmas. And the girls all enjoyed playing with each others new goodies.
And now for the pictures...
Addy is becoming quite the tree decorator. And this year Ella was quite the tree undecorator. For some reason, instead of putting the ornaments back on the tree after she took them off, we just piled them on the table. By the end we had a pretty big pile on the table and not so many on the bottom of the tree. Don't think that she broke any though, so that is good.
First half-asleep look at her loot.
Ella definitely got distracted with the toys that were unwrapped and had zero interest in unwrapping the gifts on her own.
Blurry picture b/c it is an action shot of Ella taking Addy's new doll for a ride in the new baby stroller! We are all super excited to have a good stroller that doesn't break every 2 seconds - is maybe just a bit too big though b/c Ella can climb in herself.
Sleepy girls full of Christmas!
Betsy, Addy and Jean
More fun opening Ella's gifts - these were new books which were great. We read A LOT of books and although I feel like we have a small library here at the house, it was really nice to get some new and different ones.
Granny and Mary - from the smile on her face, you would never have guessed that Granny had a bad case of bronchitis. She was the ultimate trooper!
These 2 are going to be trouble one day. Neither can really talk right now, so I'm not really sure what they were doing, but it totally looks like they are cooking something up. Too cute!
Cousin playtime after opening gifts at Grandma and Grandpa's
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