Christmas 2009

Okay Okay, I know I'm just over a month late...but better late then never right?!

Anyways here are some pictures from our Christmas Day Festivities!

This is our very first 'full size' Christmas Tree. We upgraded from our 4 ft tree on a table this year and Aspen was SO excited to have a big tree.

First Order of Business Christmas Morning...Stockings!

If you couldn't tell that's a 2 Liter of Coke Dane is hugging.

We gave Dane a new MP3 player and a 5 movie pack of Bruce Lee. He also got some new clothes, a rubix cube, and a new wallet.

Daddy wanted to pick out one gift each for the girls that was specifically from him. He gave Ella golf set and Aspen a recorder.

Each of the girls got a new Color Wonders book that came with 5 new markers.

My mom sent me some fun scrapbooking stuff! I can't wait to have the time to use some of it.

PS Aspen took this picture!

This year my little Sister Kimberly had our family for the Smith gift exchange. She made the girls these adorable tutu's and gave us a new Wii game.

As is usually the girls were spoiled by their Grandparents this year! Among the other things they gave them G&G Smith gave them this fun Art Easel and G&G Culbertson a table with 2 chairs. We have them set up in our 'play room' and Aspen loves to pretend that she had her very own school room.

And I have to tell you of ALL the gifts they received this year these two are used EVERY DAY!

Before...After!

We had Brent's Parents over for Christmas Dinner/lunch. We made our very first Prime Rib and it was SO YUMMY

The girls had fun sitting at their table for our meal.

My little Ballerina's actually playing nice!

Twirl and jump, leap and spin. Dance Dance Dance!

With the Christmas Money from Great G&G Smith I bought the whole family new toothbrushes. We upgraded to power toothbrushes (except Ella who is still a little young she got a new Eeyore toothbrush)

Each of the girls received a game for Christmas this year. Ella got Elefun, and boy is it fun! The played it at least 30 times that afternoon!

Aspen got Princess Yahtzee JR that we played that afternoon while Ella was napping and the family got Zingo (a fun play on regular Bingo) but games are fun and worked well for the attention span of a non stop 4 yr old.

Ella's Goodies

Aspen's Goodies

We had a great Christmas and have really begun to enjoy it just being our little family. Each year it gets more exciting as the Girls are starting to grasp the idea of Jesus' Birth being the focus of Christmas and that it is just as much fun to GIVE as it is to RECEIVE.