Happy Monday & Christmas Day 2013

Happy Monday, Everyone! We were cooped up all weekend nursing our big girl back to health after she came down with a cold. But I will say it was nice to have some down-time at home, cross some things off of our to-do list, and we managed to go for two family runs! Today was Derek's first full day back to work since Dec. 16th! We are so thankful for all the family time we had over the last few weeks, and we sure are missing him!!!! Today was also Shelby's first day back to school after the Christmas break, but I kept her home today to get a little more rest after fighting her cold. The three of us girls had a nice, quiet morning at home, but we did brave the record-low cold temperatures to make a quick run to the library for some new Mo Willems (Shelby's fave!) books. She was sad to miss school, but I was thankful for a low-key day to ease back into our routine without Daddy at home. Now, back to the never-ending Christmas recaps. ;)


We had a quiet Christmas Morning at home, just the four of us. It was wonderful!!

We thought this would be the first Christmas where Shelby would be bursting with excitement to come down the stairs after waking up. As it turned out, she was more confused than anything else when we came downstairs Christmas morning. I think with all the talk about Santa coming with his reindeer & his sleigh, she thought they were all going to be staying at our house to see her when she woke up. Seeing her new train table in the living room did help her get over the disappointment of realizing that Santa & Rudolph were not in fact in our living room though. ;)

Sleepyheads on Christmas Morning

Daddy showing Shelby all the cool features on her train table :)

After playing with her train table for a bit, we made our way to the kitchen for some of Daddy's French toast & bacon. I'm sure when the girls are older, we won't be able to sway them away from all of the presents to sit down for breakfast quite as easily! ;)

After breakfast, it was back to the living room to open presents!

Shelby opening up Hadley's new puzzle from BooBoo & Pop-Pop!
She has been asking & asking for Hadley's name puzzle, and she was so
excited to finally open it!

Hadley was perfectly content with all of the bows
and wrapping paper! She had a wonderful first Christmas!!

Shelby checking out her new princess calendar with Daddy

After opening presents up, it was time for Hadley's nap. And we could tell Shelby was still tired from the chaos of our trip, so we put on Toy Story for her to watch with Daddy. She enjoyed the snuggle time on the couch!

Here are a few random videos from our Christms morning....

Both girls took long afternoon naps, and after they woke up we headed over to the Goins' house for Christmas Dinner. We had a wonderful evening with them! We are so thankful for such great friends!

Loading up in their new wagon from Grammy & Grampy to head over
to the Goins' house. Shelby is feeding Hadley a snack in this picture ;)

Off we go!

Baby Hadley & Baby Will

Cute babies!!

Santa Claus brought Adam a new train table for Christmas, too!

Beautiful table for Christmas Dinner :)

Beautiful table for the big kids, too! :)

The babies snacked while the parents & big kids ate dinner :)

We had so much fun celebrating Christmas with sweet friends! It certainly didn't hurt that the Mommies & Daddies were actually able to sit, talk, and enjoy one another's company b/c the big kids were so happy playing with Adam & Will's new toys. ;)

When we walked back in the door after dinner, Shelby had finally noticed that Santa had filled our stockings. ;)  She was excited to dig into the stockings to find our goodies!

Of course, Shelby's favorite goody from her stocking
was new "lipstick"!

I've got a few more random Christmas pictures that my parents & Derek's mom shared with us that I will post later this week, and then that should finally wrap up all of our Christmas posts! ;)