Christmas Time

We hope everyone had a blessed time with family and friends this Christmas season.  We spent Christmas Eve and Day starting our own family traditions.  It was great to just hang out as a family of four and enjoy the laughter and time together. 

A Christmas Eve tradition we started this year is to make sugar cookies in the morning. Leinna had a great time helping me make them...

 and enjoyed the fruit of her labor!

Lukkas had his version of helping too!

Christmas morning tradition- kiddos had to have breakfast before we could open presents! We thought it would be best to have happy children opening presents versus hungry kids!  Bailey wasn't too sure about this idea of waiting!

Lukkas had a great time for his first Christmas.  So much fun that we ended up sticking him in his exer-saucer toy so we could manage things a little easier.  Even from there, he found ways to "open" his presents :O)

Leinna had the present opening all figured out... She loved and enjoyed every gift and even wanted to help mom and papa with theirs.  A few of her favorites...

 A camera that actually takes pictures

and her new Minnie Mouse jammies and Mickey Mouse.  I have a feeling her 3rd birthday may be a Mickey Mouse party!

We had a wonderful day and enjoyed a nice turkey dinner. We were all pretty tired and I think everyone was sleeping by 8:30pm!  We had a busy rest of the week - went to Anchorage on the 27th, full day of doctor appointments on the 28th and then back home on the 29th with Grandma and Pope (Leif's mom and dad).  We enjoyed the company as we rang in the New Year!