Christmas Day

Christmas morning was sweet & fun :) Here is what the kids wanted from Santa this year: Tommy- tractors, Tucker-mini tractor, Whitney-a pink barbie in a barbie car (and Santa threw in Elsa too).

 We had my mom & Mark over for Christmas breakfast.

 Look out our window!  There wasn't any snow the day before & it snowed all night to make a beautiful white Christmas!

We made lots of fun pancakes for breakfast. Here is Whitney's snowman.

 Tommy's snow man & candy cane... also notice our sparkling cider. That cute guy gave me smiles all December long! :)

 Rudolph pancake for mom!

 Tucker got Santa & immediately the other kids needed a Santa too!

 Cuties ready to open presents

 Vic talked me into giving Tucker hand me down toys this year. I felt bad, but he was quite happy with it!

 Grandma spoiled him with a million Thomas trains!

 Whitney wanted all pink & Frozen stuff!

 More Frozen from Grandma

 Tommy's haul.... all "mighty machines"

 More Thomas from Grandma (she hit up a garage sale last summer & a sad teenage boy had decided to finally part with his Thomas collection, why Tucker & Tommy got so much!)

 In previous houses we had a red & gold bathroom to match our bedroom & when we moved to this house & all of the walls were khaki green, it made my bathroom look like a drab Christmas bathroom so for Christmas I got Vic to paint our bathroom & add new decor :) It is now bright & cheery in there & I love it every time I walk in!

 I was also very happy to have somewhere to put my extra long necklaces because they don't fit in my jewelry armoire.

 After we cleaned up our breakfast & presents we headed to Grandma's house for the evening.

 She was a good sport & bought new decorations for her Christmas tree so it could be Frozen.  The kids loved it!

 Mom likes to make a New Year's ham so I talked her into doing steak skewers with green, red, & white veggies.  It was super yummy!

 Vic talked me into trying a layered jell-o & I actually really liked it because I found green apple for the green layer... so now I'm sure I'll be doing many versions of this for holidays!