Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was so wonderful. Lydia let us sleep in until 7:30ish and then we got up to make breakfast for everyone. When breakfast was almost ready the three of us, Lydia, David, and I, went and woke everyone up. (Mainly Melissa and Jacob - everyone else started stirring as soon as they smelled the bacon.) After a yummy meal of Dorothy's  Sourdough pancakes, comliments of Grandma and Grandpa Knowles, we headed down to open presents.

Our pretty bright eyed baby in her Christmas pajamas.

 

We started with our stockings. David and I got some delicious treats (I even got my own box of raspberry sticks, which are my favorite). Lydia loved her stocking. She got some little rice rusks, a baby spoon, some food, and a little toy.

 

I saw this little stocking in Target and knew I had to have it. It is so sweet, it makes me smile every time I see it. It was so fun to celebrate Christmas with Lydia. Everything was a first for her - her first stocking, her first present, her first Christmas morning.

Lydia was in heaven. She loved all of the pretty presents and especially all of the bows. We helped her unwrap her presents - but for the most part she just enjoyed chewing on the ribbons. We spent much of the time trying to keep her from eating the wrapping paper (which she really really really wanted to do.)

All of us with our gifts on Christmas morning.

 

Ribbons, ribbons, ribbons....

Oh, and Tags. Don't forget those tags.

 

My family is so funny. This year as we were wrapping presents - the goal became placing the tags where they were nearly invisible to the eye. We would just cut out a piece of scrap paper and line it up with the wrapping paper to write the tag on. For example:

Can you see the litlte tree tag in the first photo?

My little brother Jacob knows us so well. He drew our name this year and we ended up with a bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos, a bottle of Cherry Dr. Pepper, a wooden "P" letter (hooray!), and a family size bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch. We laughed and laughed. There were lots of HVR jokes and such. We are well on our way to becoming spokespeople for Hidden Valley Ranch - we even get bottles of it for Christmas! All I will say is: "HVR! HVR! There's a Hidden Valley Ranch party in my mouth!" Thanks Baker, we loved your gift!

Some more pictures:

 

Lydia is such a little stander girl. The whole time we were opening presents, she was trying to pull herself up to standing on the boxes. She was so good the whole morning. We all made out like bandits: Things for our new house like extension cords, stud finders, levels and other tools for David, new makeup, jewelry, and lots of fun things for me, and loads of toys and clothes for Lydia. We are so blessed!  

It was the perfect First Christmas morning as a three person family.