Christmas Weekend...lots of pictures

My beautiful three little girls. Right before we went and saw Santa. They all seem pretty brave here!

Rylee freaked out and wouldn't go near Santa so Emily and Ally sat with him and Mike held Rylee and took pictures. We decided to leave Nathan out of it.
Finishing my two day baking marathon. The girls helped decorate the cookies. It was hard to explain to Rylee that the whole foil of cookies in front of her wasn't all hers. She didn't get that.


Would you like some cookies with those sprinkles?
I really helped them and did a lot of explaining for the frosting part. I figured the sprinkles would be the easy thing to leave them alone on while I finished making the other cookies. Wrong! They did great with the frosting part and sprinkles went flying.
Christmas Eve, reading the Christmas story. I love that kids Bible.
In front of the tree on Christmas eve. Santa's almost here!
Putting out cookies for Santa. Rylee was mad because she wanted to eat the cookies.
Christmas morning, santa came and brought flashlights for all the girls, and easy bake oven for Emily, Ariel dress up dress for Rylee and a CD and gift certificate for Ally to get her ears pierced.
Opening presents.

Nathan slept through the opening of presents and stockings so when he woke up, he got to open his. All of our kids used this babie's first Christmas stocking. Good thing it's red.
Nathan with his Christmas loot...look at the excitment on his face!
I love this shot of his puppy slippers on his cute little feet!
After opening presents and breakfast at our house, our whole troop went down to my parents for the remainder of the day. The kids got to open a whole set of presents at their house.

Later that night, after dinner, the girls put on their "Biblical" attire and led us in singing Hark The Harold Angels Sing, then Emily read the Christmas story and they finished with We wish you a Merry Christmas. Then we sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and Emily blew out his candle.
I wish I could have kept more of a straight face for the performance but Rylee was just so darn funny. Look at her diaper and blanket. She looked so proud.
The day after Christmas we took Ally to use her gift certificate at Claire's to get her ears pierced. We were going to wait until she got older but we decided she was ready and she had watched Emily get it done and knew what would happen. Plus she's been asking and asking since Emily got hers done. So here she is, pre-earrings...
Emily, waiting to watch her sister get it done...she looked so cute in her scarf. She was excited for Ally. She also looks so grown up to me all of a sudden.
Rylee, looking extremely nervous, waiting for Ally to get it done. And by the way, she freaked out and ran into the mall when Ally started crying. She has already declared she DOES NOT want to get her ears pierced.
Ouch!
But it was soooo soooo worth it! Love that face!
Merry Christmas everyone!