Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas from the Daughetee's!

I cannot believe it is already here. I started Christmas shopping very early this year and got the majority of it done over Thanksgiving Break. What a relief! I was then able to enjoy this month without the frazzle of fighting the crowds with two kids in tow.

Jeremy worked all Christmas weekend, so Santa came to our house the 23rd. Ellie and Owen were so excited to see what Santa had brought them. Each of them loved opening up their presents! I was pleasantly surprised to the kids reaction for each present. It felt as if we were opening presents all day. Ellie and Owen wanted to immediately play and ooo and ahh over each individual present. They were not in a big rush to get to the next one. It was great to see!

Cookies for Santa and Carrots for Rudolph

Santa Came!

Filled our Stockings

Unwrapping

Santa knows about Owen's love of trucks

Movie time

Christmas Program 2010

The kids had their Christmas Program at Daycare today. They each had on a festive Christmas shirt and were ready to celebrate. Ellie had been singing Christmas songs at home for weeks that she learned at daycare and was very excited to sing them with her friends for all their parents to hear.

Standing with her friends

Singing (look at the animation :)

Santa also made a surprise appearance!!! He came in with a bag of toys and called each kiddo up one by one to give them their toy. (parents brought these in the week before the program:)

Owen's name was called first, I brought him up to get his gift, and this was his reaction to Santa:

He was not happy

Then Santa called Ellie's name a little while later, she ran up to him and jumped up on his lap. She was very excited to meet Santa.

Excited!

Concentrating on opening her gift from Santa

Santa brought Owen a firetruck and Ellie a "My Little Pony". He knows them very well! :)