Christmas Fun...

This Christmas was a little different than previous years. We started our Christmas celebration a week before Christmas. My Mom raised me not to open presents early, but since we were having Christmas with my step-dad Garth and my Mom, I guess it was o.k. We celebrated early because my Mom and Garth were headed to California to be with his family for Christmas. Gammy and Poppa spoiled Cas like normal. Last Christmas she got a Fisher-Price Loving Family Dollhouse (I highly recommend), and this year, she got furniture for every room in the house. She has been playing with it constantly and can't get enough.

On Christmas Eve, we started out the day by baking some Christmas cookies. Cassidy and I love baking, and it is always an adventure. We got to goof off and play during the day. That afternoon, we went to our Church's Children's service. It was adorable. It was the live Nativity, with some of the high school kids dressed up as the animals. Cassidy loved it. She was so into the message...wouldn't you be?

After church, we decided to go and look at Christmas lights for a while. Cassidy thought that was really cool. She loved seeing all the sparkling lights, and thinks we need more on our house next year!

Once we got home, getting Cassidy snug in bed was a challenge. She was WIRED! She couldn't wait for Santa, couldn't wait for the reindeer, couldn't wait for the presents, just couldn't wait!!!! Well, finally, she fell asleep, and the house was quiet. Santa finally made his way to our house (I am sure later than he wanted).

Christmas morning was a blast. Cassidy didn't know what to do or play with first. She wanted to see her stocking, wanted to see all of the toys under the tree. Wanted us to open our gifts, wanted to open all of hers! Needless to say, that took all of about an hour total. By then it was about 8:15 a.m., and Mike and I were beat!

The rest of Christmas day was quiet at our house. Not much was going on at all. We watched some Christmas movies, and played with all of Cassidy's new toys.

Yesterday, we took out Cassidy's new Dora Big Wheel, thanks to Great-Grandmommy and Poppy. She loves it. She feels comfortable on it, and is not scared of falling off of it. She can't wait for it to get warm enough to be able to ride it again. At the last minute yesterday afternoon, I told Mike that we needed to have someone over. I called my cousins Chris and Kelly, and invited them over for dinner. We cooked homemade pizzas, and played the Wii! We had a blast.

I am off for the rest of this week! YAY! We are going to have our good friend's The Charles' Family over for New Years Eve. Can't wait! I am going to use one of my new Christmas presents, "The Big Top Cupcake Maker". Yes, I know you are jealous, and I have watched it on info commercials for a while now. Mike got it for me! I can't wait to make something in it. I will post pictures of my creation once I have them.

All the pictures are from some of our Christmas fun! I will have some more later!

Merry Christmas to all!
Until next post!