Christmas Day

The Girls waiting to go out and see what Santa Brought

For the longest time whenever we asked Mia what she wanted Santa to bring her for Christmas "gum shooters" were on her list. We could not for the life of us figure out what "Gum shooters" were. We tried to have her describe them to us and our best guess was that it fell into the Pez dispenser category, we passed this hint along to Santa and thankfully he got it right and she was pleased with her "Gum Shooters". She is pretending to make the reindeer talk in this picture.

Maddi's all time favorite gifts this year, were her baby clothes, her diaper bag, baby carrier and keys. She carried them around all morning and it was hard to get her to open anything else. She did get a new baby doll but completely rejected it in place of her old favorite doll (which actually belonged to me as a child!) It always makes us laugh to see how attached Maddi gets to "things".

Lance helped Mia make a Microphone and guitar with her Tinkertoys and she quickley began pretending to be "Hannah Ontana" (as she calls her). Don't ask me HOW in the world she knows who she is but anytime we're in a store she can point her out .

Mia's big gift this year was doll house. Santa was very excited because he got great deal on this HUGE doll house which is so big you can fit a small child in (as shown)

On Christmas Day we always have a traditional big dinner and we decided to have a little fun and get all dressed up in order to let Mia break in some of her new dress-ups. So we let the girls pick out any dress-up they wanted to wear, I pulled out an old Brides maid dress (remember this Tiff?), and Lance got out his suit and tie and had fun making a big deal out of our at home meal. :)