Christmas 2012

This Christmas was a lot of fun!  To count down the last 12 days until Christmas I did a special little advent with Noah.  I wrapped twelve books about Christmas and included an activity with each book.  Some activities were things like: play a Christmas game, go look at lights, make cookies, write a letter to Santa, etc.  Noah really looked forward to this and we had fun doing the different activities each day.  This was the first Christmas that Noah was actually excited to get presents and understood that Santa was watching him and would bring him presents! So that was a lot of fun.  It was kind of nice using Santa as leverage too.  "Noah you better be a good boy because Santa is watching you." ;)  Definitely worked magic for the month of December!
This was Makenna's second Christmas but she still did not have much of a clue about what was going on!  She opened presents and played with her toys, but for the most part she just played and was content hanging around all of the excitement   We woke up early to open presents and then headed to Tuscon to spend it with Tom's family   We had spent the Saturday before Christmas at my family's house for a super fun Christmas party.  So we had a great time with family and fun!  One of Noah's favorite presents was Disney Cars bath paints and he loves them.  I had to include the picture of him crying because it cracks me up.  This was after I told him that it was time to get out of the bath.  After he had been in there for almost an hour! ha ha
We had a wonderful Christmas for sure! :)