Christmas at the Clark's

I finally found some time to share our Christmas with everyone. The events started on the 23rd with Morgan's preschool play which was wonderful! It also started out with Elizabeth getting pneumonia which was not awesome. Luckily by Christmas Day Elizabeth was feeling better and was able to enjoy some of the festivities.

Last year was the first year Morgan was really into Christmas, and this year was even better. She knew who Santa was, and knew he was coming to see her. And better yet she knew that she needed to leave him cookies by the fireplace. So you guessed it- we had to make cookies. So before everyone got into town we started making our cookies.

Morgan loves to bake cookies and she does a pretty good job! So on Christmas Eve, once Mimi, Papaw and Grandma got to our house it was time to decorate! Last year Morgan was mainly in charge of sprinkles, but this year I decided to be a little more brave and I got some supplies to make it easier for her to decorate her cookies. (And it was fun to be all artsy with the decorating!)

Morgan had four colors of icing, many kinds of sprinkles and chocolate chips, which she ate quite a few of.

Using the icing bags were fun, and it made things easier for Morgan.

The final result- aren't they pretty! Morgan picked out five cookies for Santa. She helped make a little note for him and we put them by the fireplace when she went to bed. And for those wondering- Santa loved the cookies!

We had a great Christmas Even dinner at our house, and tracked Santa on the computer. To this day Morgan wants to see Santa on the computer. She is having a hard time figuring out the Christmas is only once a year. Finally it was Christmas morning! Luckily Morgan (and Elizabeth) let us sleep in until about 7:30 and I awoke to a little girl asking if she could go see if Santa came. We rushed downstairs and the excitement began!

Morgan and Elizabeth must have been incredibly good this year because Santa was really good to them. They got tons of new toys, new clothes and a couple of movies.

This is Morgan's new Curious George stuffed animal that also had a new Curious George book to match. She really likes the Curious George and pretty much every night she tucks him into his own bed in her room.

This is Morgan opening one of Elizabeth's presents. Elizabeth wasn't that excited about her presents, and only lasted an hour or so before she went back to sleep. It took most of the morning for her to kick the last of the fever associated with the pneumonia. Her Mimi took care of her that morning.

After a big breakfast, and a quick cleanup we spent the rest of the day playing with our new toys. We did make time to decorate a few more cookies and to make our gingerbread house! And for those that remember last year- Belle did not eat this one.

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!