Happy Birthday Jesus!!

Merry Christmas!!  It is so amazing to see how the joy of Christmas is increased with the innocence of children.  The girls woke up and ran into our room asking if Santa came yet.  We had them run out to see and Delilah was fixated for the next 15 minutes on where Santa was - saying he was lost or stuck in the chimney.  We had to keep reassuring her that Santa was back home in the North Pole sleeping because he was tired from all the houses he visited during the night.  They both loved seeing the trail of "snow" left from the fireplace to the Christmas tree. Mikayla was a little overwhelmed by opening the presents and not being able to play with them right away so next year, we will probably break up the present-opening throughout the morning.  But they were truly blessed with many wonderful gifts from friends and family.   

Here... Mikayla and Delilah on their new bikes from Nana and Papa with their new protective gear from auntie Neitra. This was an interesting experience, teaching them to ride a bike that they can't pedal backwards anymore (or it makes them brake). But they started getting the hang of it.

Mikayla in some of her new dress up from Grandma (as Cinderella)

Delilah in some of her new dress up... as Snow White

Nana, Papa, and Tia are coming the day after Christmas so we held off on doing the official Christmas dinner at home. We went over to our friends, Mike and Brenna's house for dinner. The girls were excited when we got out of the car because there was a real snowman on their front yard (in Roseville!). Guess Santa drops off snow every Christmas eve for their twin boys to play in. Fortunately, it was so cold throughout the day that snow was still left, allowing the girls to throw a couple of snow balls at each other and at Daddy.

And our yearly picture with the pajamas that Santa left all of us. We attempted a entire family picture with the dog too... but Popcorn decided not to cooperate very well with the first one!