Cleaning Up

After Christmas I spent my days off of work getting Abigail's room ready for the twin bed we are getting for Emily.  Abigail has been sleeping in one of the twins and my sister is bringing the matching twin (they were our beds as kids) so the girls can share a room together.   I moved the changing table out of the room and that is where Emily's bed will go:

 

 And I was finally able to move this chest of drawers out of the closet and into the room.  So I have more closet space as well:

I bought these sheets and bed skirts to go on the girls' beds to match the quilts my mom made them last year:

 

 This room will now be the play room/guest bed.  I went thru all the toys in Emily and Abigail's room and set a lot of stuff aside to sell in consignment.  The rest of the toys we arranged in the room and moved what will become the guest bed over to the corner:

 We also put the new Christmas toys downstairs for the girls to play with:

I also switched the curtains that were in each room.  So the green curtains are now in the play room and the pink curtains are in the girls room.  We should get the twin bed this weekend!

Christmas morning

On Monday the girls got ready for Santa by making him some cookies:

 It took a while for Emily to fall asleep on Christmas Eve.  I remember being that way as a child : )

Santa came to visit!  Here is what he brought:

 Hannah the Elf left a couple of gifts as well:

 

 Checking out what Santa brought:

 and what Hannah left . . .

 Then they opened our gifts to them:

 

 

 

We had a very relaxing enjoyable Christmas together.  I was better organized this year by wrapping the presents to the girls and numbering them so I could remember which ones I wanted them to open, etc and kept a list this year so I wouldn't find stuff later in the closet that I forgot to wrap : )

Family Christmas Part 2

On Sunday we spent time with Joe's family to celebrate Christmas.  Abigail enjoyed hanging out with the dogs that were there.  At one point we had 4 dogs in the house : )

 Joe and his crazy brother:

 

After opening presents we all went to dinner together before our family headed back home to get ready for Santa!

Family Christmas Part 1

On Saturday we celebrated Christmas with my family in Montgomery.  It was a fun time opening gifts and eating dinner together:

 My mom made a t-shirt quilt for Robert:

 and made a quilt for Michelle:

 After dinner we went to a house that had tons of Christmas lights:

 We also gave Dad his birthday present from all of us.  Dad is a Christmas Eve baby.  We all gave him a scrapbook because he wants to put his family tree stuff together.

Polar Express Week

This was the girls last week of school before Christmas Break.  Everyone had their parties at school and of course a pajama day to watch Polar Express and drink hot chocolate : )  On Tuesday we went to ChikFila with some friends for their Polar Express night.   You got a ticket at the ticket booth and then listened to the Polar Express story in a decorated area of the restaurant:

 

Then we went outside to ride the Polar Express train, and then got a bell and hot chocolate:

 

 Wednesday was Abigail's last day so she had her PJ day:

 Emily had her Grinch party at school on Wednesday and came home with Cindy Lou Who hair:

 Thursday was Emily's last day of school and she had her PJ day:

 It was so nice not to jump out of the bed running this morning!