Christmas

Christmas at our house starts with the tradition of going out on Christmas Eve to go look at Christmas decorations. While we are gone Santa never fails to leave a pair of brand new pajamas for the Children in the house. My mom got them as a girl and so did I. Aurora thought that maybe he brought them so he could make sure the girls had a good deep nights sleep and wouldn't wake up when he came back later to deliver the rest of the presents. I thought that the idea of magic pj's was a good way to think of it.

When we got home we decided that since we were having a bit of an ant problem in the condo we would leave a note for Santa on the fridge to help himself to the cookie plate and milk in the fridge because we didn't want any ants in his treats. Aurora also wanted to add what she wanted for Christmas because we never mailed a letter off. Santa was nice enough to rinse his plate when he was done and put it in the sink so we were ant free Christmas morning.

We spent the morning opening presents and both girls really liked the doll house that Santa brought. My new year's resolution is that next Christmas there will be no presents that involve parental assembly before Christmas morning. Aurora was a little disappointed that morning because there were no dress up clothes(Santa must have know because that weekend camping in the desert she go them from her grandma) and the superhero cape/ridding hood that I made her for her present wound up being too big. Morgan had a great morning and really digs seeing "Hanta" on stuff. She really got into the whole thing this year.

That afternoon we went to grandma's house for dinner and more presents. The girls really got a kick out of the new pinball machine grandpa had gotten to take out to the desert house.