So a little time for catch up. We have had an awesome past few days with Christmas.
On Christmas Eve we had a Christmas party to attend. We didn't stay very long because we had much to much work to do when we got back home.
So with Christmas comes traditions. Last Christmas when I was pregnant I started asking others what they do with their families as Traditions during the Holidays. So when this Christmas came along I got to place some of those Traditions into play. For starters, every year we are going to get a few Christmas Ornaments with our names on them. This year we got and ornament for each of us with our names and the year on them, then we got a family ornament that had 3 Snowmen on it and we had our names put on their hats with "The Albins 2007" on the ornament. Another Tradition is to bake cookies for Santa. Rick just so happens to bake the best Choclate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies in the whole wide world. So on Christmas Eve he made a batch to put out for Santa. And lastly our tradition is that everyone opens one gift on Christmas Eve and that gift is a new set of PJ's to sleep in that night, so on Christmas Day we all have our pictures taken in our beautiful NEW PJ's.
Here are a few pictures of us on Christmas Eve opening our PJ's.
Here is Maddie opening her first Christmas Gift EVER!
After a little help from Daddy, they finally broke into the package.
Then Daddy's Turn.
Then Maddie helped Mommy open her package.
Here we are showing off our PJ's.
And here is our little family in our Christmas PJ's. By this time Maddie had had enough and was not in the picture posing mood as you can see.
After we got into our PJ's, it was time for Maddie to go to night night land. Then it was time for us all to bring down all the presents and place them under the tree. And Daddy still had to assemble the Toy Box for Maddie.
Here is the final picture of our Tree after Santa's Visit. I actually had to get on the staircase to get everything in the picture.
Here is the Toy Box all set up and of course the Cats were curious as always.
Here is a shot of our stockings hung over the fireplace. Notice Maddie's being the fullest and the little red bag on the fireplace is full of stocking stuffers too.
After we set everything up Rick, Grandma, and I opened up our stockings. Then off to bed!!!
I will post about Christmas Day tomorrow... I just looked and there are lots of photo's to share!!! :) We had a great day and that little girl grinned all day long!!!
Good night to all! Tomorrow will come much to early.
Here are a few pictures of us on Christmas Eve opening our PJ's.
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