How many do you want to see?? LOL!
Our "Christmas" was good...extremely busy, but good. It feels good right now, though, to know that just as 99% of people are gearing up and running around like crazy, we are all done! And, I am excited that now that the present/stocking/food part is done that we can concentrate on the real Reason for the season. We have a candlelight church service tonight which should be gorgeous! We'll get up in the morning and do the Christmas story with the kids. Then we may go deliver food for Meals on Wheels. Good times.
Since I took sooooo many pictures, I'll just share a few. We opened stockings and gifts in the morning and then in the evening we went to the VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS party at the Magic Kingdom. We had the kids take naps late in the afternoon since they would be up WAY past their bedtime and they did so well we ended up staying the WHOLE time -- until MIDNIGHT! I couldn't believe it (me, being the 7:30 bedtime, very few exceptions lady :)
Anyway, on to the pictures...
Levi helping himself to the popcorn tin :)
Out of about 20 pictures of the kids, this is the best one...oh well, I guess it is better that it is true to life rather than cheesy and fake :)
Alaina has a small obsession with taking pictures with my belly. Probably reminiscing about a photo shoot we did a week or two before I had Levi.
Caleb with his Pat Pat Rocket...he LOVES this thing!
There are a ton more pictures from opening gifts, but you get the idea :) And just to keep you informed, the kids favorite gifts:
Alaina -- Her Digital Artist Studio and her digital camera. Makes a mama proud :)
Caleb -- His pat pat Rocket and his Smart Cycle.
Levi -- His Radio Flyer Inch Worm and a green punching balloon that grandma gave him :)
And on to the party at the Magic Kingdom...
One of Alaina's favorite parts of the party was the dance party. She couldn't stay away from the music!
And Levi, the little ladies man that he is, loved the dance party too :)
The castle was absolutely GORGEOUS with the lights...all decked out like icicles.
And then we went to the fireworks show. It was fantastic, of course, but my favorite part was all the different colors of the castle!
After fireworks was the parade...
After the parade Levi was letting his tiredness catch up with him....
And then the highlight of the evening...at least for Alaina. We rode Aladdin's Magic Carpet ride and from way up in the air I spotted Aladdin and Jasmine. So, we decided to wait a few minutes to get a picture with them (we've never run into them before). While we were waiting, they left! However, the worker said that if we waited a few minutes the Genie and Abu would be coming. A few minutes turned into a lot of minutes, but we finally got to see them. Apparently they don't come out much so it was a treat to get to meet them. After meeting them and getting pictures we left to go meet up with everyone else at another ride. As we were leaving the worker ran up to us and told us that if we would wait ten minutes, Abu would like to ride the carpet ride with Alaina! She was so excited and they all had a blast!
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The rest of the weekend was pretty laid back and low key (thankfully!) On Saturday night Jason and I had our first real date in forever. We went to see Cirque du Soleil ~ La Nouba in Downtown Disney. It was different than I expected, but still amazing. Afterwards we went out to dinner and enjoyed some alone time.
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Jason's family leaves this morning and then we have some time just as a family. It's still almost 80 degrees here so we will most likely spend lots of time playing outside and just enjoying a slower pace.
I've also been creating lots of new templates that will come out in January...so excited to get to work with some of them. I haven't scrapped in quite a while so hopefully they will get me moving!
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Time to call it a day! Hope you have a WONDERFUL Christmas Eve!
Wonderful photos.
Hope the rest of your Christmas is a Merry.
Love from Northern Ireland.
Posted by: JanMary, N Ireland | December 25, 2007 at 06:33 AM
So fun to see your pregnant belly! I keep forgetting you're expecting! And I love the Disney magic that got sprinkled on you! How fun to get to ride the magic carpet with a character! Love hearing about your holiday! Sounds just delightful! Enjoy the rest of the season!
Posted by: Becky | December 25, 2007 at 07:36 AM
What great pictures! I agree with Becky - it is fun to see you pregnant! You look GREAT! So neat that Alaina loves it! Glad you had a great time and yeah for a date night! Have a blessed Christmas day!
Posted by: MandaKay | December 25, 2007 at 10:20 AM