Year End Wrap Up!

Christmas Evening we drove to Auburn to spend Christmas with Joe's family.  We ate dinner together and opened gifts.

 We got home the next day and the girls and I bummed out on Friday while Joe worked.  On Saturday I started on an organization frenzy that lasted thru Sunday Night trying to get everything back in order.  The girls played with their new gifts and got a little stir crazy:

We also decided it was time for Abigail to be in a booster seat.  She looks so grown up:

On New Year's Eve the girls and I got our nails painted:

 

And we took down Christmas decorations.

That evening Joe and Emily put together one of Joe's new lego sets and we played Uno:

 

 

 Happy 2013 everyone.  May 2014 bring lots of blessings!

Santa Came!

On Christmas Eve we made mini donuts for Santa from an American Girl recipe that uses Cheerios

 Santa came to visit the Wilsons!  Emily woke up at 6:00 a.m. and we held her off until 7:00 when we let her wake up her sister to go see what Santa brought:

 He brought doll beds, doll dresses, My Little Pony Equestria Dolls, design books, coloring books, and candy!

Ana the Elf left some Frozen plates and gum:

 

After the girls checked everything out we opened gifts.  Emily got Molly and Abigail got a doll she named Abigail:

 They exchanged gifts from each other.  Emily got Abigail a diary and Abigail got Emily a Repunzel doll:

 Emily got Joe and I some gifts from her school store:

 She also made a picture at school and her teacher framed it:

  

The aftermath . . .

After opening gifts everyone put together Legos:

 Emily enjoyed playing with her dolls:

 Merry Christmas!!!!

Santa and Polar Express

On Tuesday night we went to the Robinson's House for a Christmas get together and guess who came to visit!

Everyone was so excited that Santa came to the party.  He listened to what everyone wanted for Christmas and even passed out small gifts to the kids. 

Abigail was more interested in getting her face painted and asked if Emily could get her gift for her from Santa because she wasn't going to get to too close : ) 

 Rachel snapped this photo for me of Santa BEHIND Abigail.  Abigail never knew he was there:

On Wednesday I drove to Auburn to work and went to eat Christmas lunch with everyone.  It was nice seeing everyone that day.  Joe was off work and stayed home to handle carpool duty and getting Emily from the bus:

That evening I met everyone at Polar Express at our favorite chicken place.  We ate dinner and then rode the Polar Express train:

 And got Hot Chocolate

 This year they also had free Santa pictures.  Abigail and Harper told us they wanted to just sit in front of Santa for the picture but he coordinating the photo session and picked them up to put them in his lap : )  They did great!

The last day of school before break was on Friday and both girls had Pajama Day at school!

On Saturday we took it easy at home.  Emily used her new American Girl craft to make her doll a shirt with a cat on it:

The count down to Christmas morning has begun!

Christmas with Family

This weekend we celebrated Christmas together with my family.  We met in Birmingham at Michelle's house.

 

We opened gifts together on Saturday night:

 

 

 

Roller Coaster made his rounds sitting in everyone's lap. 

 Joe was so pleased that Roller Coaster chose him to snuggle with: )