Don't Tell Livy Santa's Coming to Town

Seriously. Even mentioning his name is a big no-no in our house now.

So last night we put the kids to bed early because they had been napless due to our 3rd viewing of Tangled in the movie theaters (STILL LOVE IT!). Anyhoo, so we put her to bed at like 6:30 and I told her that Santa will check and see if she's sleeping and if she isn't, he can't leave presents. Bad idea! I went back up there like a half hour later and Livy was no where to be found. I called her name and she came crawling out from under her bed almost in tears. I asked what was wrong and she said, "I don't want Santa to come in my room!!!" The poor girl was terrified! She was so nervous! I told her he wouldn't come in her room but that he'll just leave presents.

So I go back up another half hour later and she's still almost in tears. She told me to call him and tell him not to come in our house at all! It was so sad. So we told her she could fall asleep in our bed and that Santa had already come and brought the presents but that Santa said she couldn't open them until she fell asleep and woke up. Then when we said that, she asked, "Did he bring my big bike?" We started laughing - we couldn't deny it because we had already said the presents were here. haha So we told her that he did and that she gets to play with it once she wakes up. So around 10 she finally fell asleep!

After Livy finally fell asleep, Santa's little elves spent about 4 HOURS putting together this little wing-ding. Yes, it's a Barbie MANSION! It's ginormous. Liv was literally able to climb into it when she saw it. She loves it! Santana (Santa-Nana) brought it - along with every other gift they got (minus like 2)! They were spoiled this year for sure!

We were so excited to have our own Christmas here as a little family! We set our Christmas Eve traditions and learned some lessons. We want to go to a movie each Christmas Eve - but you have to go to an early one because this is apparently everyone else's tradition as well! Then we want to have brinner each year. After some delicious brinner - we're going to have a Christmas themed FHE where we read about Christ in the scriptures and discuss what a special person He was. After that, our treat/activity will be to make Santa some Rice Krispy treats! Because he get's enough cookies and because decorating cookies with little ones is just too stressful :) We also learned never to tell a small child that a strange old man will come peek in their rooms!

Here's Adam after the movie. He discovered his love for licorice!

So then Matt woke all of us up at 7:30 out of pure excitement! Adam and I weren't as pleased since we knew we could have gotten another hour of sleep but it was cute to see Matt hard at work getting every camera we own ready to capture Adam's first Christmas!

Christmas Pajamas from Nana

Livy was so freaking excited when she saw her Barbie mansion and bike that she said she didn't want to open any presents! Ha! And little Adam was obsessed with his Buzz Lightyear push thing. He LOVES it! He wasn't really into the presents thing. I thought he might be, but he was more interested in pulling Livy's bike streamers off.

Adam was loving Grandma and Grandpa Wiseman's gift. Pure joy on his face.

Cute face

Livy's newest baby named Baby. She took it around with her everywhere we went today.

After the presents extravaganza, we went to eat breakfast at my sister-in-law's sister's house. Her family has become like our family. Then I went with the kids to my aunt Susan's house while Matt worked (lame). But it was so enjoyable and Livy had cousins to play with all day which she loved! All in all, it was a good day!

Random Christmas-y Pics:Livy and Adam in their Christmas Sunday dress.

Here's Matt's present that Livy is loving. Yes of course, a sweet hunting game on the wii. Matt and I actually made it to like 3 days before Christmas before telling each other what we got! We were pretty proud of ourselves.

Livy and just one of her potential arranged marriage husbands, Skyler. One of our favorite friends, the Matthews, are visiting for Christmas and we scored some time with them!

Sweet bows I made for presents this year!

We hope all of you had a very Merry Christmas!