Nathan, Katie, Taylor, & Zoey: Christmas 2010

Monday, December 27, 2010

Christmas 2010

My parents and brother came in on Wednesday, Dec. 22nd for Christmas. On Thursday we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch which was a lot of fun. Taylor loved the music and danced the whole time. Nathan, Zach and I went to see Tron Thursday night while my parents babysit the girls - love that free babysitting! Friday (Christmas Eve), mom and I did a little bit of shopping for fun. The stores weren't as packed as I thought they would be. We all went to the Christmas Eve service at church and when we got home, Nathan's parents had arrived. Taylor put out cookies and carrots for Santa and his reindeer, we read The Night Before Christmas and the Christmas Story, and then she headed to bed. After the girls went to bed, we played our Christmas game.

Instead of buying the adults presents this year, we decided to just buy for the girls and that we would up the price on the game presents. For the last few years, we have played this game on Christmas eve. Everyone brings 3 presents that are $10 or under ($20 this year). You roll the dice to get a 7 or 11 and if you hit it, you pick a present. Once all the presents are picked, we have 10 minutes to roll doubles to steal peoples presents. It's a blast!

Christmas morning was so fun with Taylor and Zoey. Taylor opened all her presents and then wanted to play with everything. We took a break and had brunch before Taylor opened Zoey's presents for her. She only made it half way through Zoey's presents before she just had to go play with her new toys, so I finished opening for Zoey. It was a wonderful Christmas morning. We spent the rest of the day watching movies, playing with Taylor's toys and chowing down.

Sunday morning we had breakfast at the Gaylord Texan with some family from out of town. After breakfast all of the grandparents and my brother had to head home. Nathan, the girls and I all took naps after everyone left. It was fabulous!