Christmas Re-Cap

Christmas was so fun this year, E is at such a fun age and it was the first year she could really enjoy things. Last year she was only a few months old so we didn't do a whole lot. This year she helped us decorate, learned new words such as "Ho ho ho" and "Santa, baking and we started some new traditions. We even did some arts and crafts! 

We made this decoration with her little feet and hand prints. 

I loved having it hanging in the living room! I was quite proud of us, as I'm not very crafty. We also started a new tradition of writing our letters to Santa on the plate we use to leave Santa milk and cookies. We got the plate from hobby lobby (on sale of course), got a sharpie and wrote our letter. We then baked it in the over on 175 for about half an hour! Here is the finished product!

Every year my company hosts a Christmas Party for their employees. Its a rather formal event. Last year we took a photo with E before we headed out so we decided to do it again this year. Here is this years photo:

Being 30 weeks pregnant at Christmas, I couldnt pass up all the yummy cookies and sweets there were. Here are the cookies we made for Santa. We got the recipe from our friend. They are sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting. In a future post I will share the recipe!

Our tradition is to have my family over on Christmas Eve, we usually have Prime Rib or some other yummy dinner and then open gifts. E loved opening gifts, at least until she found a toy that she really loved and that was the end of that. Here are some photos from the fun!

Booties and Dress are from Gymboree and Headband is from Taylor's Treasures

Santa came for E and the puppies this year! As you can see E was a very good girl this year!

On Christmas morning, E got to see what Santa brought her and also got to open the gifts from Mommy and Daddy. 

After that C family came over and we opened more gifts! This girl got extremely spoiled as you can plainly see... This was her room after all had been said and done. I think it is nearing time to find a bigger home! I have no clue why everyone thought she needed all those gifts, but she is set until her birthday next October! 

Around 10am my family came back over and we did a brunch with breakfast burritos, yummy sweets and of course mimosas. Oh how I wish I could've had one...

Later in the day we went over to C parents to have dinner and a few gifts with his moms side of the family. Needless to say we were super busy but blessed this holiday season.