Our Quiet Christmas

I love everything about Christmas.  The music, the lights, the yummy goodies, the closeness of family, etc.  Seriously, I could go on and on.  This year we knew would be a whirlwind since Matt was graduating his school the week prior to Christmas.  (Seriously, was it just last weekend that we were driving across the country?)  But yesterday and today, we just took it easy and did things as a family.  The only downer of the last two days was that we all were affected by something, I had a migraine yesterday and a headache today, and both Gracie and Matt woke up with a bug today.  You will be able to see in the pictures Gracie was just not feeling good.  The good thing is that we all are feeling better.  Gracie is already in bed since she decided to not take a nap today.  Either way, it was nice to spend the day just the three of us.  We did miss our family back at home, we tend to get a little homesick during the holidays.

Christmas Eve was beautiful.  We bake some cookies and spent the day going to the movies (we HAD to take Daddy to see Tangled, it was a must according to Gracie), having lunch, and looking at Christmas lights.  There is a house that puts on a light show over the weekend during the holiday’s.  It was beautiful.  Gracie was more interested in Santa Claus then anything else.  They must have talked about Santa a lot at school because we have been so busy to really talk Christmas let alone Santa.  She has been all about it though, so cute!  We even had to leave out cookies and a letter for him when he came to drop her “things.”  She was so excited to see them, poor thing, I wish she would have been feeling better when she woke up.

 

This was the temp on the way to lunch and a movie.  Most of you had a white Christmas and here we are with out jackets,well at least until the sun goes down! 

Gracie is so glad to have her Daddy home!  She is quite the Daddy’s girl!

Gracie got to open one gift before we went to bed.  She loved her jama jama’s!

Then it was to bed for a special little girl.  We actually fell asleep downstairs on the couch, but we soon took her upstairs so we could get everything ready for the morning.  When we went to bed, all of us felt fine.  When we woke up, I had a headache, Gracie was just not feeling good, and Matt had a bug.  We all tried to get up around 7 but Gracie decided to sleep until 8:30.  Finally it was time to open gifts.  As you will be able to tell, Gracie was just not feeling great…

We got her this $6 princess camera and it was her favorite toy.  She took so many pictures today it wasn’t funny.  Every time I tried to take a picture, she had her camera up too.  The funniest part was when she had us posing by her artwork!

All her loot!

           

Harley and Daisy even got to enjoy a special snack today!

Matt wanted to get her this Elmo game for the Wii and she had a blast with it.  It helps you learn letters and colors.  It was so much fun to watch her try to figure out how to play it.  If you notice the remote, it has a cute Elmo cover.

By the end of the day, Gracie was feeling much better and even beat both me and her daddy at Candy Land!  It was beautiful Christmas and I look forward to see what the new year brings!