Christmas Day 2011

Malaina and Lilly playing with Lanies lip gloss.

Titi Lilly and my sweet, Lilly Marie- this is who Lilly is named after!(my mom's sister)

Daddy and Lilly

Papa and Lilly at my sister's house.

Princess Lilly opening gifts from Grandma Linda.

Lilly and Jordan

Christmas Day was spent with Ryan's family in the morning and afternoon and my family in the evening. We went to Ryan's sisters for brunch. Lilly opened presents, played with her favorite Jordan and we ate and relaxed! It was a perfect middle to our long day. From there, we headed to my sister's to be with my mom's side. We had a huge dinner, desserts and some wine! The kids played, danced and opened more presents! We were pretty tired by the end of the day (really before we even got to Ryan's sisters). Lilly was beat, she feel asleep on our way to my sisters. But, we managed to perk up. It's all about being with family ~ and that's exactly what we did. Christmas was perfect.
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends.

Christmas Eve, Eve and Christmas Eve!!

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Lilly had a cute top on, but she's always hot!!

Before she got hot!!

Christmas Eve
(do you love her pretty bracelets)

Unfortunately, we lost almost all of our pictures from Christmas Eve, Eve at my parents house and Christmas Eve. What you see is all we managed to save. I'm hoping my family has some pictures we can copy. This year, we went to my parents house to celebrate Christmas with my parents and us kids (and our kids too). Of course, my parents went above and beyond what they should do for all of us! The kiddies got tons of gifts and even us adults. We all loved everything! On Christmas Eve, we went to my dad's aunts house. This is a tradition that has been going on since my dad was a kid. Santa visits with a bag full of toys and stockings! This year Ryan dressed as Santa, I did have pictures but they're gone. He did awesome!! He mastered the "ho ho ho" over the past 3 weeks and the "Merry Christmas". He was a hit! I was hoping to get a picture of Lilly with Santa, but she was scared. Actually, the most scared I've ever seen her with Santa, go figure! It must of been the "ho, ho ho" she'd been hearing for so long... ha ha
Merry Christmas~

Christmas Morning

Lilly checking out her new trampoline from Santa and everything else hanging on it!

Christmas day began with Lilly beyond excited to see that santa really did come to our house. She went downstairs and saw her presents sitting there. In her morning voice, jammies and a huge smile on her face she says " santa really did come!" It was priceless. She was thrilled to see all her gifts sitting there.
Watching her open all her gifts from us and Santa was worth all the shopping and wrapping!! We had a great morning!