Christmas Day

Happy Halloween!  I mean Merry Christmas!  Santa Claus brought each of my kids a new costume for Christmas.  Riley had specifically asked for a Spider Man Suit and Alex just "needed" a Belle dress from Beauty and the Beast.  So immediately each child wanted to put on their new costumes and wear them while they continued to open presents.  That is why all these pictures on Christmas morning, you see costumes instead of the cute pajamas that I looked so hard for and tried to match, sigh....

This particular Christmas, Alex had a definite theme to her presents.  First of all she is so into the Disney princesses, right now.  Yes, her mommy has guided her a little, but she chose which princess she likes best all on her own.  Belle is her favorite. Maybe it is because she is the only princess with dark hair, or maybe it is because she was the only one she could say at first, but either way Beauty from Beauty and the Beast was the theme of most of her presents.  Alex got the dress, the magic wand, the tiara, the shoes, and of course the movie.  The funny thing is neither child has even seen the movie. That will be fixed soon and long before we make our big trip to Disney World for Spring Break.

This is what I call a Christmas explosion.  No one would believe this room was spotless at 7am that morning!

Daddy got a rubber football from Riley.  This year Riley bought presents for us at school.  He did a great job.  I gave him $20 and he actually came home with CHANGE!  He bought Daddy the football, Mommy earrings, and Alex a princess necklace.  I was so proud of him!

After all the new presents were opened, they went back to playing with the presents they got yesterday.  Each of them got a Zhu Zhu pet & a car for their new pets.  Poor Sadie, our cat went nuts.  Its bad enough they look like a mouse but then they move too! LOL!

Then Daddy hung Alex's new princess mirror that she got from Papaw & Grandma Karyn in her room.  It says things like, "You are as pretty as a princess."  She loves it!

Finally it was time to get everyone dressed & ready to celebrate with my mom & dad at their house.  This was the first year that we went somewhere else for Christmas day, but only because they live 10 minutes away and Mom could start the cooking before we got there.

Alex got a set of princess pajamas (The theme continues....)

 Riley got a desperately needed new backback.  Since he will be playing basketball this winter, it is appropriately a Dallas Mavericks backpack.

 Alex got another new baby, but this one is a Cinderella baby princess.  She is such a little mother.  Even my babysitter tells me all the time, how she loves to mother everyone,  especially "baby Lauren" as she calls her.

 Then we got my parents a bottle of wine with a personalized label of the kid's Christmas picture.  I did this when Alex was just a baby and decided they needed a new one.  Such a neat gift that Dvine Winery in Grapevine does. Plus it gives me an excuse to drive over there and pick up a bottle for ourselves!

This Christmas was just my parents, since my cousin & family were not coming in until later in the week, so the Farris family joined us.  It was so nice to have all of us together.  Grandma Karyn was having a tea party with Alex.  Soo cute!  Another Beauty & the Beast themed present!

After so much excitement, we headed home that afternoon to let the kids take a nap, while Mommy & Daddy rested & cheered on the pitiful Cowboys.  But it was nice to watch our Aggie quarterback come in and almost pull off a win!