Christmas Eve

Our family tradition when I was growing up was to open gifts on Christmas Eve. Since the girls were born we haven't had much stability in our Christmas Eve because we have been here and there and everywhere and they were too little to appreciate much (still are really...).

But this Christmas Eve we were at home and decided to let the girls open a few gifts with the rest to be saved for when Julia got here.

Anticipation...thy name is Ankica.


No more fighting over pack-packs! And they can be responsible for their artwork from school this way (in theory).


Dress up is a constant with these two...more pretty things to wear.

My surprise gift. Way over budget. Oh well :-) Turns out that three of the other four families in my immediate family got Wiis as well for Christmas and after spending a few days watching them play Wii Fit Plus...we ran out and got that part of the game system as well. It is quite a workout! (Which, obviously, I need!)

The jackalope :-) Or is it Gumby? The way I took the picture makes him looks like he has antlers. Loran has wanted footy jammies for a long time and I figured that now that we live in Wisconsin, it was high time!