Here are a few pictures from our Christmas celebrations...
Lexi excited for it to finally be Christmas Eve.
Avery on Christmas Eve waiting for Dinner.
Lexi was so excited to eat the pie that she and I made together.
Singing Christmas songs together.
As we read the Christmas story from the New Testament, Lexi layed out the characters.
Lexi and Avery rolling around on the ground together. Well, actually Lexi is trying to roll on top of Avery and Avery is rolling away.
Here are all the stockings laid out in front of the tree Christmas morning.
Avery decided to wake up at 6:30! Way too early. So she was the first one to go find her stocking.
Lexi decided to wake up at 7 (an hour earlier than normal) and as soon as I told her it was Christmas she popped out of bed and ran into the living room straight to her stocking. She was so excited to find that Santa had left her Smarties and not candy canes.
Lexi LOVED opening all the presents for us and Avery enjoyed playing with the wrapping paper and boxes.
Lexi was so excited to get some slippers just like I did.
Lexi was so excited to wear her Princess shoes and PJ's. Princesses are officially her new thing.
We got Lexi this kitchen/tea set. We knew she would love it.
Avery was content just playing with her new toys.(Look at those four upper teeth!)
Here the girls are modeling their Christmas PJ's from Sean's parents.
Lexi was SOOO excited to have a tea set like on Beauty and the Beast. Now she can have tea parties.
Avery had a great first Christmas. She just spent the whole day playing happily on the floor. She even got a little power nap on Sean's lap. A special Christmas gift for Sean, for sure.
It was a bitter sweet Christmas for sure. We loved being together just as our little family and being able to start our own traditions. But we missed being with our families in Washington. In fact, this was my first Christmas away from my mom. It was hard for me to not be home with my parents. But being a parent of an excited 2 1/2 year old gave me something to be really excited about. And now Christmas is only going to get more exciting every year!
3 comments:
It looks like you had a great Christmas! What cute girls!
it's so weird to see Avery with TEETH. it's been so long since we last saw you guys. Looks like Christmas at your home was something full of goodies. But that's no surprise... Christensens are always full of goodies. :)
They are so cute! I love that tea set you got for Lexi. It was sad for us to be away from home too but really fun to be able to play Santa.
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