Merry Christmas Everyone!

We had a great Christmas this year. It was so fun to see how into it Laurel got. She was so excited for Santa Claus to come and asked every night for a week before Christmas, "Santa Claus coming tonight?" On Christmas morning the first thing she said was, "Happy birthday Jesus" and "I love you Jesus!"

Here is Laurel with some carrots for Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve.

She wanted to stay up and see Santa eat his cookies and the reindeer eat their carrots. We kept telling her she had to go to sleep or Santa wouldn't come. She was so excited that she had a hard time falling asleep though. Then she woke up several times and wanted to know if Santa had come yet.

I enjoyed playing Santa Claus and eating the cookies, yummy!

Laurel got a train table as her big present this year. Matt finished the table on Christmas Eve so it was really down to the wire. He had fun setting up the trains for her while I finished wrapping all the presents.

Santa has come! Laurel had a HUGE stocking which was nice because I really got tired of wrapping around 11:00 and just shoved the rest of her loot in her stocking!

Laurel's face on Christmas morning when she first saw her train table.

She was in awe!

As you can tell she really LOVES her Thomas!

It was really hard to get her want to look in her stocking or open presents. All she wanted to do was play trains!

After a long while of playing, Laurel decided those gifts under the tree looked pretty interesting.

Throwing wrapping paper was lots of fun.

She got lots of neat toys and wanted to open and play with each one before moving on to the next. Towards the end she got tired of opening presents and gave the last few to me and Matt. She said, "one for you Daddy!" and "one for you Mommy!" It was so adorable.

We headed down to Matt's parents and Laurel enjoyed the bounty of Grandma's kitchen.

Yummy!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. I know we did!