Merry Christmas!!!

We hope that you had a very Merry Christmas! Christmas is really about children and the magic that the season holds for them. After a long month of me working so hard, I was able to take a little break to focus all of my energy on Anne...what a treat!

The first part was to spend Christmas Eve and day at Nana and Papa's. Anne loves spending time with cousins!

Here she is getting in on the truck action.

However, she is a girl and Uncle Vinnie bought her a princess dress up set. As you can see, heels and linolium do not go together when you are one year old! (That is her raisins on the floor and that is not what caused the fall)

Here she is again in all of her girly glory! This is the pretty purple dress she got from Nana. This is us Sunday morning before church.

Because Dan had to work over Christmas, we decided to celebrate it as a family on the 28th. I'm so glad we saved it for today so we could really enjoy the day together!

This is Jamie and Madeline (Dan's parents) on a webcam with us! They watched Anne open her presents. I'm sure it was a little boring for them since Anne wanted to just play with the first present she opened and we had to coax her to open more but it was fun sharing that time with them!

This is Anne's first present opened this morning...her own little laptop! She has already put it to great use! She has been carrying it around all day and working her little fingers.

This is what Santa brought her..her own baby doll along with the pack and play, a diaper bag and some little diapers. She was a little hesitant at first since my old baby doll is what she has been playing with but soon she attached herself to this one and was really mothering her. She put her down here and then gave her a kiss on the forehead.

Our family photo in front of the tree after we had a chance to take showers and look nice for the camera. It took a little coaxing to get Anne to smile at this point because she was a little worn out from the morning.

And just as promised, here is the photo of Anne's ornament for this year. I fell in love with it when I saw it at the Christmas store for this is the reason of the season!

Here is a little video of Anne with her laptop! She just loves it...and hopefully it will make mommy and daddy's life a little easier when it comes to us being on "our" computer.