Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Picture our Christmas

The whole family meets together on the 23rd for our combined Christmas Eve traditions. Amelia debuted as Baby Jesus this year in our Nativity. She was calm and reverent the whole time. Our little actress.

We exchanged our cousin gifts and sibling gifts. Just had to show off these cute boots from cousin Carley and Aunt Kelly. They are so Amelia.

Christmas morning. Amelia amongst all the presents. Not all hers, thank goodness. There were 8 of us there Christmas morning.

Classic Christmas morning family picture. I am determined to never have a shower or even comb my hair on Christmas morning. No one in my family will be allowed. I did brush my teeth.

Amelia loving the orange most of all.

She was so excited opening presents. Here she is about to open her cabbage patch doll from Grandma Rose.

Here she is squealing as she opens her Little People dollhouse from us. 

Amelia and all her loot. Yes she was quite spoiled between us and both sets of grandparents. It was so fun to see her excited and happy that morning.

We headed out to East Canyon next, our annual family vacation. Here she is playing with Grandma.
She went sledding with dad. It was freezing, I only let her out for 10 minutes.

She loved to sled. She just kind of yelled the whole way down. Ha ha, it was the best.

Amelia and cousin Benjamin.

Amelia and Griffin. They were all trying to get her to crawl. She knew how and would do a few crawl-steps every now and then, but she doesn't like to show off.

This is one of her 'faces' these days. It's like a "I'm just chillin" kind of look.

We celebrated New Years all weekend with family. Played games, ate good food, had a blast.

And now I am falling into what I call hermit mode. I enjoy family and all the festivities, but now I'm ready to enjoy being at home with my little girl and getting back into our routine.
Hope everyone had a happy and safe holidays!

8 comments:

Ginger said...

I just loved it when she would shreek when she would see her toys on Christmas morning.

That picture of her with mom is so how she is. She just gives people this look as if she is thinking what they are doing. She kills me with that kissy face too. Oh I already miss her.

Amanda said...

That's so fun that amelia got so into christmas and opening presents. I bet that made it even more fun for you guys. As always, she is so cute and super photogenic. I love how you can see her little personality shine through in pictures. And I LOVE the boots!

Brittany Lewis said...

Fun! I have to say, Amelia's hair in your Christmas morning family picture is priceless!

Tiffany said...

She has the cutest faces! Brooklyn has those boots too!

Jamie and Ben said...

Don't you just love Christmas so much more with a little one?! Charlotte got the same Little People house from my parents AND she has the same pink boots. They'd be a cute pair together.

Kristina said...

Love the boots and love the squeal. :) Britta wandered all around the house with a clementine in her hand one day. I guess it's a favorite among Amelia's, too. :)

brittany said...

amelia is so stinkin cute and i love the faces she makes!! my fav is her christmas morning face with her finger.

Christi said...

Love her "I'm just chillin" face and how excited she looked for her present!