We woke up, ate breakfast, and then we decorated our cake for Jesus' birthday. I let Elaina really have free reign over the cake decorating (more the usual) so the cake is pretty fantastic. I baked the cake the night before so it was ready for decorating the next morning.
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| Icing |
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| I did help her write Happy Birthday Jesus on it.... |
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| Sprinkles and candy galore... |
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| Finished product - you can't even see the words |
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| Then she cleaned the dishes...with no soap but a good effort. I appreciated the gesture. |
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| Next we prepared these rice krispie ornaments that we were going to decorate later at my mom's house. More to come on that. |
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| After a quick visit to my mammaw and my grandma that day, we headed to church with my mom. This is a post church family pose at my mom's house |
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| Elaina in her Christmas outfit |
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| Lil E with dad |
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| And one with mom |
After dinner we started with presents. My mom likes to play this game where everyone draws a word from a hat. Then, Gale reads The Night Before Christmas and when your word gets spoken you call out. You then get to pick an envelope from a basket that has a gift card to somewhere in it. The next person can take a gift card already opened or pick a new one... you know, dirty Santa of sorts. It's super fun.
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| Here is Elaina sitting with Kate awaiting her word to be said. She got "Happy Christmas" so her word was last. But, she waited very patiently |
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| Still waiting on her word, now in my lap |
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| Gale reading The Night Before Christmas |
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| Next, we decorated the rice krispie treats like ornaments. |
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| Alexandra and Elaina |
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| Some of the finished products... |
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| Then we opened our stocking stuffers.... Elaina's favorite gift (probably of ALL the gifts she got were these Ariel pajamas) |
Next we headed home to get to bed for Santa's arrival.....
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| The loot |
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| Bike... super exciting |
Here is the reindeer eating the food she left. He hovered beside the door for an hour until we let him outside. He was happy to eat it all.
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