Our Wild and Crazy Christmas 09!!!!!!!

Last night Noah and Nana headed out for Christmas Eve worship. This was my first Christmas without going to church that I ever remember! It was a tad odd.

We got some visitors on Christmas Eve as well. The Campagna Family came to Christmas Carol to the "shut ins" !!! lol! They brought Noah this cool ukelele.


This morning Noah woke at his usual 7AM and came down the steps with Paul. He was mesmerized by all of the presents and just sort of went into overdrive automatically. He was incredibly patient and waited until we all had coffee and were seated.

We had cutesy matching pajamas for the little ones. We tried to get some combined photos, but none of them really turned out.


Maeve was in a rare mood today. Super happy when she woke up but screaming when tired. We are sure she is working on a tooth, but it just won't come through.

Noah first opened his stocking and had a blast with all of the little items inside.


While we waited for everyone to show up, he got to open his sea life package from Discovery Toys. We spent a good hour looking up all of the different sharks and whales online and identifying them.

Once Nana, MomMom and PopPop and Uncle Eric showed up the tree was CROWDED!!!

Noah got his very own digital camera. He took so many pictures today and LOVED it!!!

My dad made me the best nativity ever. I saw it on a website titled "a minimalist nativity" and I fell in love with it. Does it get more simple than this? I asked my dad to replicate it and he did!!


Eric was on Maeve duty a lot of the day.


And of course, he wanted to build Noah's first legos with him. Noah wouldn't let anyone help him but Uncle Eric.


This was Noah's big gift. An awesome wooden treehouse, complete with a trap door, porch swing, rope ladder, drawbridge and more! We thought it would be perfect to put all of his animals on. He LOVED it!!!


Mama wearing Noah's new Icelandic hat.

One of the gifts Noah wanted to give was a "vulture" to pop pop. Who knows why! This hat is what we found. Noah is showing us how it looks! We all got a good laugh out of this one.


Maeve got this tummy time mat and Noah couldn't stop photographing her.



Maeve was getting acquainted with Sophie the Giraffe, whom she almost parted ways with. Noah heard Sophie and Giraffe and thought it was for the dog. When she went missing Noah told us he gave it to the dog. Luckily she hadn't been mauled yet!
After all of the chaos was over, Meave was just chillin' with me in her new cheetah ears. She loved it.


It was a wonderful Christmas. There were way tooooo many gifts, but it was a pretty tame day. Noah was very polite and respectful and wasn't greedy at all. He loved all of his gifts and treated stickers the same way he treated big gifts. We had a wonderful brunch of french toast, egg casesrole, bacon, mimosas, bloody mary's, shrimp, turkey, ham, and more. We all had a wonderful wonderful Christmas and now we are all playing with our new toys!!!!!

Merry Christmas to you!!!!!