Merry Christmas!!

Christmas began at the very tame time of about 7:30 this morning. Gotta love that gift! Anna was up first and patiently waited until Libby woke up. I suspect she had snuck down the stairs sometime throughout the night as her first look at the presents did not inspire much emotion.

In no time, however, she was excited and raring to rip into the mountain of goodies.

Libby immediately spotted her new chair and wasn't about to take her eyes off of it - even for a quick picture.

It was a big hit!

But we finally convinced her to try her hand at tearing up some wrapping paper...

Elmo! We wondered why she was prying the poor puppet's mouth open...

Until we saw she was going in for a big kiss!

It was love at first sight for Libby.

Anna, meanwhile, was going through presents like she was on a race against the clock. In the time it took Libby to open Elmo, she was almost through her stash!


In the few short hours since the present unwrapping frenzy she was already opened and explored most of her gifts. Everything except the Easy Bake Oven, which I have managed to delay with the (VERY TRUE)excuse that we are already up to our eyeballs in sugar.

My parents are coming tomorrow, no doubt with a trunk load of more presents and we get to repeat the whole event tomorrow. YAY!! I love Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you are all enjoying some time with loved ones and remember that, although great fun, gifts are not the real reason we celebrate today.

Happy Birthday, Jesus!