Santa Arrived Early!

We had another nice weekend. I spent Saturday getting ready for us to have our Christmas that night. We had finger food type appetizers for dinner, some Asti, and we all opened presents. Ella had the most work to do since she was in charge of helping Lily open most of her gifts too. Ella is a getting really good at opening gifts now. And she plays with each thing before moving on to the next one. The gifts were under the tree for a whole week and she left them alone. I was pretty impressed by that! She really seemed to like everything she received. We have a bunch of pictures that hopefully I'll get posted before we leave for the blistery cold of Wisconsin.

Sunday morning we woke up and Santa had taken time out of his busy schedule at the toy workshop to deliver a few gifts early. There were gifts waiting for Ella & Lily by the fireplace. Ella was excited that he was nice enough to make an early delivery for us! Then we spent Sunday relaxing most of the day and had a very enjoyable evening visiting with our friends Matt & Allison. They live in Madison and were out here visiting Allison's family. We made our annual trip to Don Cuco's. We first took them there three years ago and now Matt requests that we go there each time they visit. ;-) We don't mind since we only seem to get there when people visit. Matt is going to be Lily's godfather so it was fun to see him meet her for the first time. And we look forward to meeting up with them again during the holiday week in Wisconsin.

So now, we are just gearing up for our big Christmas trip. I've got to find the winter coats, scarves, mittens & hats. Our poor blood has thinned after so many years in warm weather winters. And from what I hear there is tons of snow already and its really cold so far this winter. Oh joy.

Actually, it will be nice to have snow for once. The last two Christmases in the Midwest have been virtually green Christmases. This will be Ella's first real experience with snow! It will be so fun to see her reaction. Don't worry I'm sure we'll be posting photos and probably even video of it. So everyone will get to see her have snow fun!

I'm sure I'll send a post or two from the snowy Midwest. But, we hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakkuh, or just a Happy Holiday! And a great New Year!