Christmas Day

Christmas morning, we wake up at Jason's parents' house where his mom goes overboard with setting this up! We eat a delicious breakfast and wait for everyone to show up to open presents.

Making sure the new dress twirls.

Notice how Mace had to wear her new winter jacket and how Barney joined them as well :)

Kels got some new extensions!

Macey's words, "Mom, don't move these crayons away

from me because they are my favorite gift of all." Not often will you find her without a book or crayon in her hand.

Besides from Kelsey being up most the night coughing (whom Grammy took care of!), and Taylie awake from 4am on since she hates sleeping away from home, and Merek having the stomach bug, it was a nice day! Thank you to Jason's family for making it such a special day for us and especially our girls. They are so very lucky!

At night we headed to my Aunt Rachel and Uncle Jim's house in Holland to celebrate the Nykerk extended family Christmas. We enjoyed MORE food, pictionary, and BINGO. (side note: If anyone has a picture of my girls and grandpa, could you email me a copy? Thanks!) Sorry no pictures since the camera got left back in Dorr. Taylie was beyond tired and quite fussy most of the night, but little did we know she ended up spiking a 103.5 fever a few hours later and was up most the night screaming. Once we got her fever under control she was good to go and a trip to the urgent in the morning said it was just teething or a virus so nothing serious :)

Christmas morning

Here's some pictures from "our" Christmas morning.

Taylie got a baby doll and highchair.

Kels asked Santa for a Tangled dress, but the

doll that came with it was her favorite!

Mace wrote Santa a letter this year since she didn't want

to sit on his lap when we saw him. She asked him for a Lalaloopsy Doll!

Along with their "Santa" gift, Jason and I get them a few small gifts as well. I took each of the bigger girls shopping alone this year to pick out something for $5 for the other. They were so excited to exchange their gifts. Mace got Kels a My Little Pony and Kels picked out a Lalaloopsy book for Mace.

Taylie loves this Santa and insists he always needs a diaper on.

It was fun day with lots of excitement and hugs for saying "Thank You" :)

Frosting, cookies, and candy!

We made cookies for Santa tonight since he visits our house early each year. We like to enjoy a day together before we head up north for family parties and let the girls enjoy their gifts from us and Santa while we pack, bake, cook, and load up the van. So anyways, we made cookies tonight and I took a lot of cute ones of them by the fireplace afterwards. I uploaded them so I'd have room on my card for tomorrow's pictures. Then AFTER deleting them from the card, I noticed only ONE uploaded and so here it is. Guess it teaches me to double check the uploads before deleting. Oh well.

Here they are during the process...

taking things quite seriously...

making them perfect for Santa....

and we decided they tasted pretty good!

Last weekend, Jason's parents came down and the girls decorated a gingerbread house and make Christmas trees out of sugar cones.

These two pictures make me laugh.

And apparently something was quite funny.

The finished product!

I should take a picture of the many other things we decorated this year from Preschool, Storytime, etc. We have quite the collection!

Well, the girls are snug in their beds, stockings are filled, and presents are all wrapped so I'm off to bed for a fun filled day tomorow (with a few more to follow).

Have a Merry Christmas!