Christmas morning

Madeline was awake bright and early, but Hailey was still asleep at 915am. So we woke her up. She was so excited, I've never seen her get out of bed that fast! Santa brought Hailey a huge doll house with a bunch of furniture to fill up the rooms. She loved it. Santa also brought her a big bear dressed up as a Trooper, just like daddy. The bear is actually wearing one of Jeff's old uniforms that was made special just for the bear. He is really cute. It was so much fun seeing Hailey open up her presents. She loved everything and kept asking how Santa knew that she wanted these things?! The one thing she kept asking Santa for was Hello Kitty earrings (somewhere during our hospital stay, Hailey developed an obsession for Hello Kitty). So of course Santa came through with very sparkly Hello Kitty earrings. She was over the moon about them.

We had a close call on Christmas morning...Hailey was standing in front of the tree when it started to fall over. Jeff pulled her out of the way and the tree ended up landing on Hailey's new dollhouse. Only a couple of ornaments got broken. It was scary because a few minutes earlier, we had Madeline set up in front of the tree for pictures.

After a yummy breakfast, we headed down to Mt. Vernon to have Christmas with my family. We had an great early dinner of turkey with all the fixings and then we opened mountains of gifts. AS always, everyone was much too generous, and we all got spoiled.

We have more pictures somewhere, but we can't seem to find the memory card...