Thursday, December 27, 2012

Christmas Day

After we opened all our presents and ate our traditional cinnamon coffee cake for breakfast, we got dressed and headed out to the Gaylord Texan to meet my Mom, Dad and Paula for Christmas brunch.

Dani wore the dress that Lily wore for her first Christmas!
Playing at the hotel.


Dani LOVED it!  She got all her favorites in one meal -- scrambled eggs, strawberries, grapes, potatoes, pizza, and pasta.  She ate the WHOLE time we were there, like an hour of constant eating.
Lily didn't do as well.  They have an awesome kids buffet set up with pizza, mac and cheese, chicken tenders, PB&J, etc.  Not to mention breakfast foods.  But Lily didn't eat much -- she didn't even finish her cookies!!



Yumm-O!

At the buffet.


After eating, we went to the ICE display featuring sculptures from the Madagascar movies.  Dani was SO freaking adorable in her big parka!!

Dani with Grandpa and Paula

It is amazing how everything is made of ice.




Lily going down the ice slide!
Chip slid down too,  And so did Danielle!!  Dani went down the children's slide and had to go down laying on her back.  It was pretty funny and I don't think she knew what to make of the whole thing.  We didn't get any pictures since there was someone standing in the way.
While we were at brunch, it started snowing!!!  A white Christmas!!!!!  Since we were about 30 minutes from the house, we were in a hurry to get on the road home.  Thankfully we didn't leave any later since the road were already pretty gnarly. 


Both girls napped the way home.  It's been an eventful few days!!  I was SO proud of Danielle.  I honestly wasn't too sure how she's do without a nap all day.  But she was perfect!!


This is the road into our neighborhood, right before the turn to get to out alleyway.  It was a frickin' blizzard!!!

Christmas Morning

The tree was lit, the presents were wrapped -- we were just waiting for Santa to come!




Santa!!!!
He stuffed the stockings and brought Lily a pink Nintendo 3DS with two games and a One Direction poster and Dani got a Cozy Coupe car and a Hello Kitty chair/couch -- Dani LOVES chairs!
Here we go!
Yay!!!

Dani LOVES her car.
Lily was WAY too excited about this giant pencil.  She was actually really excited and happy about all her presents.  I got SO many hugs all morning.  It was awesome.


One Direction charm bracelets and a singing Justin Bieber toothbrush!!  Santa is the best!
Dani got new phones, books, Princess little people, bracelets and balls in her stocking.
Chip got some silly hand sanitizer . . .
 . . . and Will Ferrell sun tan lotion.
The new chair was a huge hit with both kids.



Strawberry Shortcake headphones!!








I bought Chip this amazing shirt.
Dani loves her new bracelets.
Kisses for baby!
Another great shirt!  Chip is so lucky!

One Direction pajamas!



What a perfect morning!  What a huge mess!
Playing with Lily's DS.  SO sweet!!

It really was a great morning.  The girls were so good and had so much fun.  I don't want to wait a whole year to do it again!!