Since we were going to be spending Christmas in Oklahoma with my family we wanted to have Christmas at our house a little early.
The Friday before Christmas was "Christmas Eve." We made sugar cookies and decorated them, went out for dinner, and drove around and looked at Christmas lights.
Before bed we set out cookies and milk for Santa. Grace made sure we bought some carrots on one of our grocery shopping trips so we could leave them out for Santa's reindeer.
{Ready to see what Santa brought}
The next morning (Saturday = "Christmas") Grace woke up earlier than normal and told me "My tummy feels like Santa came." Her tummy has been telling her some funny stuff lately! She waited patiently for Olivia to wake up. While we were patiently waiting for Olivia to wake up I put some hot cocoa on the stove to cook. I think the noise I was making in the kitchen made Grace's wait a little shorter.
The girls both ran down the hallway to the stairs. Grace never looked down to see what was waiting until she turned the corner. The entire upstairs hall has the wrought iron banister.
And then Olivia had to stop to look downstairs.
The first thing Grace did was look in her stocking and look what was right on top peeking out! A new Glimmer fairy! This was the thing she always said she wanted Santa to get for her. I think if that is all she got she would have been happy.
Olivia got a Tinkerbell fairy!
{Look, a Barbie!}
After going through their stockings they decided to check out the big stuff Santa brought.
How cool is the little trampoline?
And we had to see if Santa ate his cookies and drank his milk.
After moving their bog stuff out of the living room we sorted presents and started opening them. Grace couldn't seem to open them fast enough. As soon as she opened one it was on the the next.
Olivia wanted to take her time. After she opened a present she would say "Please. Open." And then she would play with it for a while.
See? She wanted to play with the princesses before she opened the next present.
They both got a lot of fun stuff! Grace got a fairy from the new Tinkerbell movie. And Olivia got a set of little fairies.
Just look how excited Grace was about her Easy Bake oven. We made cupcakes that afternoon!
We spent part of the day running a few errands (Christmas returns/exchanges before Christmas!) and Grace even got to pet a real live reindeer at the mall.
That evening we watched the movie Elf. Now we think about Buddy every time we have waffles with syrup on top.
