Christmas 2014

Before January is gone...Let's recap Christmas, shall we?

About a week before Christmas Elaina and I went back to Painting with a Twist with her BFF, Kaitilyn.  Just the two girls painted and they had a blast.  The moms just watched and chatted.  We love this little girl as much as Elaina does....

Finished products...

Christmas Eve

...keeping in tradition (since it's the second time we have done this, it can be called a tradition, right?) our dear friends the Halls and the Breaux came over that morning.  Christine helped Elaina decorate the birthday cake for Jesus just like she did last year.  And, Elaina got presents.  We ate a yummy breakfast too.  We love these families so very much and I am glad we are creating this this tradition with them.  They love and spoil Elaina so much!

Finished - it looked good.

Make a wish...oh wait, it's not their birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS! 

Giant Hello Kitty Pez dispenser.. Do they know my child or what?

And the most hilarious picture of all (at the bottom)  I love everything about these pictures!  

 Later that day we did our traditional - went to mass with my mom then over to her house for a yummy dinner and present opening.  I've got to tell you, my picture taking this year was minimal.  I usually take a zillion pictures but I was out of sorts.  Not sure why.  But, I did get a few.

Nell, Dave, and Sloane made it to Christmas Eve - very cool.  Love this little girl to pieces.

Our very excited little girl to FINALLY open presents!  This is a gift card to Target.  My mom always plays a game with gift cards as gifts...it's always fun

Then it was home to get ready for Santa...and he did not disappoint.  An Ipod with wireless speaker - Elaina is really into her music and loves to sing loudly to it in the shower so this gift from Santa was perfect.   A luggage bag for our Disney trip in May, some Frozen and Hello Kitty stuff and stocking stuffers galore.  As usual she made out....

Santa did his part and ate the cookies and drank the milk

Christmas Day....re-cap = lots of presents, yummy cinnamon rolls, coffee, and good times.  Got it?  Okay.  Now for some pictures

Elaina helping Erik open his stocking

 

So, her stocking was filled with these things called Shopkins and a bunch of blind bags...  This is VERY MUCH her thing right now.  A bit obsessed with them, she is.  She watches videos on YouTube of people opening these blind bags - all the time.  She prefers to do that over any other type of TV.  It's very boring to me but she loves it.  They don't even show their faces most of the time - it's people's hands opening them.  Anyway...she loves it and that is okay by me.  The idea is you don't know what you are getting in each bag and you try to collect the whole set.  I don't know....She was so excited about getting a bunch of these things.

This gal LOVES her some magic tricks so this little magic trick set was exciting for her.

Someone tell me where my little girl went....clothes from Justice (her favorite right now as most kids her age), boots, a purse, Ipod and speakers.  This is a teenager, I think.

This picture was from later Christmas day at Erik's parents house....Elaina and Kelsey pretty excited about presents, as you can tell

That sums it up for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...there is more Christmas festivities to be seen.  Stay tuned.