White Christmas!

Another Christmas has come and gone but not without excitement. This was a white Christmas here in Tulsa, complete with 6-8 inches of snow. It started coming down mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve and stopped sometime during the middle of the night. While a white Christmas is pretty and in theory sounds great, it makes the logistics of Christmas difficult. We didn't get to participate in Christmas Eve dinner at Uncle Stan and Aunt Marci's and Christmas Eve church services were cancelled. We ended up ordering out for dinner and watching Charlie Brown's Christmas before opening our Christmas Eve gifts of pjs and books, setting out Santa's cookies and milk and heading off to bed. Kate was sad to miss Aunt Marci's party (the girl loves to dress up and go to parties!) but I think she ended up having fun at home. Oh and before bed Kate did get the opportunity to test out her new snow boots and shovel while helping daddy shovel the sidewalk and porch.

On Christmas morning, the girls were super excited to see their gifts from Santa and evidently they were on the "nice" list because both girls got what they asked for! Kate is thrilled with her Snow White costume and cape and Maggie could care less about her Dora doll!:) After we played for awhile, (while Ryan spent a good 2 hours shoveling and trying to get our car out of the driveway) Glammy, Papaw, Uncle Brett, Nanny and Bumps came over for breakfast and to see what the girls got. We then all loaded up and headed out to Glammy and Papaw's to open gifts and have a late lunch. Kate loved her Barbie sleeping bag and talked us into using it a nap time and Mags really loved her Hot Tot princess car. After quick naps, emphasis on quick, we met up with the extended family at Nanny and Bumps' house for more gift opening and dinner. Favorite gifts from Nanny and Bumps were the microphone for Kate and the doll swing for Maggie. When we made it safely home around 8:00, we were exhausted but had had such a fun day!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! What a great year we've had...hope 2010 is just as good or even better!

Chilren's Party at Southern Hills

Needed her apron on to help mommy

make chocolate covered pretzels

for the neighbors

Let the shoveling begin!

Merry Christmas Eve - with new pjs and a book

Anxious to see what Santa brought

Explaining to Maggie that it's a Dora doll

Already in costume, opening

presents from mommy and daddy

Maggie had fun ripping the paper

Snuggled in her new sleeping bag

Mags and her Hot Tot

Nanny and Bumps got each girl a

princess costume

The great-grandkids enjoyed a dinner of grilled

cheese sandwiches and fruit...yummy!