Merry Christmas!

Been a fun couple of days here!  So here's a little run-down:

Christmas Eve -

spent the day at home until about 4pm when we left to go to dinner (and when we missed your call because we had just left).  Ate at Bucca De Beppo so that my brother Jim could be in on a little bit of Christmas with the family - he had to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Then we went to my parents' house.  They got each of the girls a few things.  Madi got new slippers - blue and sparkly - very cute.  She also got $20 and a friendship bracelet set.  My brother Jon and his fiancee Allison got her a cute case to hold nail polish and some new nail polish.

Came home and got the cookies and milk ready for Santa.  Madi wrote him a note and asked him to sign it.  The girls got in bed and fell asleep.

Christmas - 

Madi woke up about 6:30am.  But we told her we'd come get her in the morning so that everyone would go downstairs at the same time.  She kept asking to open presents without us or her stocking or just one gift so we finally just said that we'd knock on her door and let her know when it was time.  Both Jer and I were also up at 6:30am, but we stayed in bed until about 7:30 when Riley woke up.

Riley came in our room and sat on the bed.  Madi asked if she could come in (smart of her to ask as she's walked in on us in our underwear before when we're getting ready - hahaha).  So she came in and sat on the bed.  She mentioned presents and Riley got super excited "PRESENTS!!!  Let's go!!!"

We went downstairs and the girls were all excited.  There were a few gifts from us:  an oversized tiger, a kindle, and a kindle cover - bright lime green!  So cute!  We went upstairs and got Jules and cleaned the girls' humidifiers.  Then the girls took turns opening their gifts. Madi loved everything and was very excited about the kindle in particular.  She's already been using it and should be great for her as she reads so much!!

Other gifts were a Brookstone Nap Blanket, horse game, some tshirts that are scratch and sniff, a few other tshirts, hairbrush, farting putty (flarp), more friendship bracelet thread, the Martha Stewart Loom kit - she can create different sized items and use yarn to make them, a book, the large tiger, a small stuffed animal cat and some metallic sheets that she can use a tool to scratch off the picture.

Poppi and Grammy came over Christmas night and stayed with us.  They brought lots of goodies to eat!!  The girls especially loved the apricot pies.  And I have eaten almost half the tin of chex mix and most of the frosted bread.  My hips thank you, Mom and Dad ;)

Kat and Tripp came over too.  The kids had fun playing and running around.  We ate dinner and then opened gifts.  The girls got purses with jewelry inside.  Loved it!

Day After Christmas -

Poppi and Grammy hung out in the morning until almost lunch.  Doyce and Dee came over for a little bit.  They went out to lunch and we hung out at home.  Don't really remember what else we did...

Past Few Days -  (not sure what I did here with the color...)

Madi has played some WOW quite a bit.  We went to the Arbor Hills Preserve and played on the playground there for at least an hour.  Was a beautiful 55 degrees and a little windy, but the girls loved it.  Tomorrow Madi gets to have a playdate with Elizabeth and she'll see a friend she knew from Dallas Christian - Megan.  She's super excited about that!!