Christmas Eve 2010

What a great day I had with my family!  I made a short trip to Walmart, the kids and I visited a family friend to give them a little gift, made lunch, baked cookies for Santa, opened gifts, played with said gifts, decorated the cookies for Santa, played with gifts more, hubby made dinner, read some Christmas books, kids took their baths, played with gifts yet a little more, and now are in bed.  WHEW!  Here are some pics of our fun day.  The pics were taken, btw, with my Christmas gift...my new Nikon D3100!  YAY!   I have some other pics that I'll add later that were taken with the old camera before we exchanged gifts.

Claire read the Christmas books to us tonight. 

I have a short clip that I wanted to post, but I'm having problems with the uploader, so maybe I can post it another time. 

 Connor and hubby started putting together a K'nex roller coaster set. 

 Big project and will have to be completed tomorrow! 

  

Our yearly visitors from the North Pole...Worley and Tallulah.  They were exceptionally good this year.  Connor and Claire will be sad to see them go, but they had fun during their visit. 

Connor and Claire made sure they left cookies for Worley and Tallulah too.  They didn't want them to be hungry on their journey back to the North Pole. 

Claire loves this snowman.  

 He's soft and mushy, and is made with white shiny thread that makes him sparkle like snow.

    

At bedtime,  Claire fell right to sleep, Connor, on the other hand,  might even still be awake.  He just let me take the pic of him "faking sleep". 

This pic was taken with only the Christmas tree lights and the light from the fireplace. 

 I can't believe this camera!  LOVING IT! 

Well, it's time to jump in bed, cover up my head, 'cause Santa Claus comes tonight! 

Merry Christmas! 

Checking for fingerprints,

Kellie