Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Oh Happy Day - Christmas 2010

Sophie and Max had a GREAT Christmas! It was so nice to stay home and open presents and then have friends and family over for dinner in the afternoon.

Sophie was still under the weather when she woke up, so she mostly sat on the couch and watched movies and opened presents. Her favorite presents were her talking Woody and Jesse dolls (from Toy Story) and a floor puzzle (both from her Grammy and Grandad in Texas). Next up was a child sized table and chairs from Marer and Pop (my parents). We've had tea parties several times and Sophie loves sitting at her table working on her puzzles. She also loved her Prince Philip doll and Aunt Lissa and Uncle Danny gave her.

Max was pretty easy to please this year. A box, a little wrapping paper, some tape that he could eat... although he also really likes his new dump truck.

Sophie and I both received Ugg's from Dave which we already wear. It might be Hawaii, but Ugg's are always in season =).

Dave and I decided that our traditional Christmas dinner would be Standing Prime Rib and Yorkshire Pudding. The food was great (although my Prime Rib kept mooing at me). We also made homemade horseradish. We were very adventurous with cooking this year. I like to think that every year I become a better cook, maybe I'll take some cooking lessons in the coming year, then I won't give Dave food poisoning periodically.


























Monday, January 3, 2011

Christmas Eve - 2010

We had grand plans for Christmas Eve this year. The kids, Dave, and I were gearing up to head over to my parents house for dinner and gift opening. Unfortunately Sophie woke up in the middle of the night with a fever so I decided we would instead have a relaxed evening at home. As relaxed as one can get with a three year old running a fever and hacking up a lung all over the house. I was sad that I didn't get to spend my last Christmas Eve (for awhile) in Hawaii with my parents but Dave and the kids and I all had fun at home.

Sophie and Max got to open one gift on Christmas Eve. It is always new (and now matching) pajamas in anticipation of photos on Christmas morning. I tried to convince Dave that we should all wear matching or coordinating pajamas but he said "No way!". At least I got to dress the kids up all matchy-matchy.

Sophie and Max hung out on the couch for a while. Sophie insisted on holding Max, which is when I realized that he might be bigger than she is, or at least close. Max isn't wearing any pants because he is quite the messy eater now.
Sophie and I getting ready to bake cookies for Santa Claus.

Dave's turn to help Sophie bake cookies.


Max wanted to help also. By help I mean eat raw cookie dough.


Waiting with bated breath for Santa Claus cookies.



Putting the final ornament on the Advent Tree that Missy gave us last year. It was Dave and Anne's when they were little.


We can't wait for Christmas morning!











Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas - Picture Heavy


Merry Christmas Everyone! We had a great day. Here's a photo of Sophie hanging out with all our Christmas presents.
This is Sophie and a friends baby on Christmas Eve. She just loved him and I know she's going to be excited when we bring home Max in a couple months.Here's Sophie opening a present at Grandma and Grandpa's house on Christmas Eve. They must talk to Santa because they got her a baking set.
Here's Sophie opening her gift from Santa, a new kitchen. She love's it.
Sophie also got a tricycle from Grammy and Grandad. She LOVES it!

Here's my present from Santa. He got me a Sizzix Big Shot, which I can't wait to use. That Santa is a peach and he sure surprised me.
I made Sophie some felt food. Here she is trying it out.
Sophie and Dave enjoying their new books from Grammy and Grandad.
Santa is one tricky fellow and really surprised Dave with a special gift in his stocking.
It's Yuengling. A beer that can only be found on the East Coast. Santa must have had a lot of help (wink, wink) to get that to Hawaii. Let's hope he doesn't get arrested.



Merry Christmas!






Sunday, December 13, 2009

Presents Please

Sophie had the chance to meet Santa on Saturday. We've been prepping her for about two weeks now in the hopes that sitting on Santa's lap wouldn't be too traumatic. Dave decided to teach her to say, "Present's please" when she saw Santa. So she's been saying that off and on for a couple days now. Sophie was okay with seeing Santa from a distance, but did not want to sit on his lap. The minute Dave tried to sit her on his lap, Sophie started screaming. The first photo taken was a pretty close approximation of the Santa photo from last year. The difference this year was that Santa was giving cookies. She immediately stopped crying when presented with a cookie and promptly gave Santa a big hug. She then sat back on his lap (clutching her pack of cookies) and took another photo, which you can see here. Sophie is a sweetheart, and completely bribable.

Tree Decorating 101

Wow, it's amazing how hectic things get around the holidays. Between buying gifts, wrapping gifts, taking care of kids (I've been watching a friend's daughter in the afternoons) and everything else that's going on I've started napping with Sophie. I know how lucky I am that I can nap during the day.

We started decorating the Christmas tree a couple weeks ago, but we were interrupted by one of Dave's many trips to Guam. We finally finished the decorating, and now there are presents under there. Mostly for Dave and Sophie, as Dave won't start shopping for me until the 24th. We just found out the Navy Exchange is open till 11pm, so that gives him plenty of time to procrastinate. The tree looks great. We decided to go with a LIVE tree. Dave was the driving force behind that, but I will admit that a live tree makes the house smell fabulous. Dave also did a great job with the lights, he put a lot of time into making the tree seem to sparkle. Sophie really got into hanging ornaments, or more accurately she happily plopped them on any available sturdy branch. She is really enjoying turning the lights on in the morning when we wake up and turning them off if we leave for the day. She's also getting a kick out of turning the outdoor lights on in the evenings.

We walked around the neighborhood this past weekend to check out all the Christmas light. Quite a few of our neighbors got into the holiday spirit and Sophie had a really good time walking in the evening with Dave and I. We decided we would have to continue evening walk even after the holidays. This week should be pretty busy with gearing up for Christmas. Ordering last minute gifts and making sure everything is ready to go for our trip to Houston in a couple weeks.


Sophie getting a piggy back from Daddy

Dave strategically placing lights.

Sophie hanging her first Christmas ornament.