Santa Came!

I can hardly believe that Christmas has now come and gone. On Christmas Eve we did a lot of cleaning and preparations for Christmas day. Travis wrapped all of my gifts with help for Mykenzie and used a lot of my wrapping paper so I had to go out at 6:00 on Christmas Eve to Kmart and pick up some wrapping paper since I had nothing of the girls wrapped yet! Around 4 we decided to go ahead and let them open all of the gifts that family has sent, they got stuff from Aunt Shari, Great Grammy, Grandma, Aunt Angie, Pops, and Nanny! We are still waiting on Aunt Aimee's stuff to get here, it is held up in the mail somewhere. So they opened all of that and got a TON of stuff from all of them and played with it until it was time to go to bed. We put them to bed around 7:30 and by about 8:15 they were both sleeping so up to the attic we went and carried everything down and started wrapping. We got done by 10! I was so happy, especially since our LONG Christmas Eve last year that kept us up till 3am, but that is a LOOONG story. So we ate Santa's cookies, got everything set up and went to bed!
Travis woke up around 6 and woke Mykenzie up about 6:15 and then Kaylee and finally me. We went down to find that Santa did indeed come to our house. Mykenzie must have said at least 5 times yesterday that she must have been on the good list, but she thought she was going to be on the bad list. So she must have been worried! They had all of their presents open by 7:00. Kaylee didn't much care to open them though, she would say "here daddy, open present" and make him do it while she played with something else! LOL Mykenzie tore through hers and loved pretty much everything she got. She could have done without the clothes but they are too cute! Of course after the opening comes the taking everything out of the boxes. So about a million twist ties later and all the presents were free from their packages! We played with toys, ate some breakfast, called our loved ones and played some more.
Mykenzie got an Easy Bake oven so we were trying to make cookies. Let me tell you, I know now why my mom never got me one! So we put our 2 little cookies into the oven and don't you know they burnt! So apparently 8 minutes really means 4 minutes we discovered! She loves it though and can't wait to get more mixes. Kaylee got a ton of Dora stuff so she is in Dora Heaven right now. We all got showered and I threw my ham and sweet potato casserole and green bean casserole into the oven and at 2:20 they were done we threw them into the car and headed to Candy and Martel's for dinner, she had fried chicken, greens, pasta salad and deviled eggs waiting too. It was all so yummy I couldn't stop eating! Then we had strawberry cake and banana pudding for dessert! The kids played and we played some cards and came home about 7:30. The girls played with some more toys while Travis and I tried to make the place we were standing look like a house again and not a land of boxes and paper! We got that done and were all in bed by 10. We had a great Christmas and hope that all of you did too :)
Here are some pictures of our holiday :)