Christmas Together

I know, I know. I'm a little slow. Christmas was over a month ago. But I don't care. I'm documenting anyway! ;)

This was Livie's first Christmas!! Of course, I think Dan and I had more fun than she did. And, as would be expected, she enjoyed the wrapping paper more than she even cared about any of her actual gifts. This is why we didn't get her much. But it was still a super fun time.

We decided to enjoy our Christmas sleeping in. We figured this would probably be the last Christmas we would be able to sleep in since our baby will be a toddler by next year and not likely to sleep as long as she does now in the mornings {which still isn't very long, just in case any of you should think to feel jealous of our much sleeping baby . . .}. This plan, however, proved futile when family and friends began texting me at 7:17am to wish me and mine a Merry Christmas. 7:17AM!!! Who does that? Maybe everyone figured we would be up anyway? Maybe everyone thought I would be expecting it? No matter. Ironically, the first text I received was from my brother {love ya, bro!} who had no fathomable reason to be up that early. And yet he was. Sharing the Christmas love in all-caps with smiley faces. We don't pay for very many text messages, so I didn't respond to any of the ones I received. Rude, I know. But I must conserve the dimes! Of course, the very best Christmas text messages were the ones I got twice. Because I didn't respond. I guess everyone really wanted to make sure I got the message. Merry Christmas {again}! So not responding actually proved a poor choice since I got double the messages anyway. But, I never felt so loved on a Christmas! :D


The first thing we did after getting up Christmas morning was dress Livie in her baby's first Christmas outfit. My siblings got it for her and I loved it! There was an adorable onesie, a hat and little booties, that all matched. I left her in it all day long because I just thought she was so cute!! I took some photos of her outfit and then we showed her what she got for Christmas. She got some cute hair bows and a pretty new dress, some soft blocks and pj's. She also got a baby's first Christmas ornament that she really didn't care too much about. Dan helped her open all her presents and she really loved the paper. When the "experts" tell you that babies like black and white, they aren't joking! She loved that paper!

She was starting to feel a little left out of the present unwrapping! ;)

Dan and I felt spoiled!  
Dan got all kinds of goodies to go with his new iPhone, plus games and movies and a thermal cover for the hose on his CamelBak. 
 
I got a beautiful skirt {that I absolutely love but worry about wearing with a child who still spits all over me}, my favorite Les Miserables musical and the movie {the one with Liam Neeson - fah-bulous!} and a mono-pod for my camera.

It was such a fun Christmas being together as a family. We loved every bit of it!