We had a great day yesterday! Lucy woke up and came into our room and asked for her snuggie (that was in the dryer) and I asked her if she had gone into the living room yet....she said no....and I said, you don't want to see if Santa came? and the look on her face was hiliarious! She had completely forgotten that it was Christmas! I mean, how could she forget, right? She was so excited the night before, she could barely sleep! Well, it just made it more exciting that way! She got lots of art stuff b/c all she does is draw and write and color. The big thing was an easel that Santa left a note on for her. She loved it!
Molly enjoyed her first Christmas. She loved ripping and crinkling and trying to eat the paper! She got a little push walker/ride on toy....she thinks she can walk already! She is actually pretty good at it, we just have to stay real close and help her hold on. Can somebody please remind her that she is only 7.5 months and she shouldn't be trying to walk yet?!?
On Christmas Eve, Matt's sister Stacy, her husband Jarrod, and Jude came over. The babies loved playing with the nativity figures...I don't know what it is about this picture, but I just love it....Molly is just holding Mary like, hey mom, here's Mary!
Lucy and Jarrod snuggled in their snuggies (the gifts everyone was most excited about!)
My family came over Christmas night and we had our traditional Christmas lasagna (matt's grandmother's special recipe...she was italian so it was always a tradition in their house to do lasagna on Christmas) Matt and Lucy went to the movies on Christmas Day (another tradition of ours) and she wore her snuggie...just like in the commercial! Hope you all had a great day too!
I don't do a "themed" or fancy kind of tree...I have always collected Mickey/Disney ornaments and Lucy loves them and I like to be able to put the ones she makes on there too, so we have a random variety. It is bright and colorful! I remember one year my mom did a theme tree with all red balls and green, red, and gold plaid bows and I remember being so mad that we couldn't put all our other ornaments we always used to have on there b/c it didn't match! 
They had some snacks, talked about the first Thanksgiving and hung leaves on a little "tree" telling what they are thankful for. I love this idea...maybe I can pull one together and make one for our table this year (or next since I am just now thinking of it! but it would be fun for the kids this year since Lucy is here in CO with her cousins....hmmm..) The teacher read each leaf saying what the kids were thankful for and then they got to hang them after she read them. Lucy said she was thankful to God for "dreams". Interesting!
We had a little party for her at the park this year. It was beautiful weather and very simple and easy. Lucy had a blast. We are going to Colorado for Thanksgiving this year so we will have another party for her there with her cousins and Matt's parents. So, speaking of our trip, I am way behind on the packing so I better get back to it!! Oh, last year's post for Lucy's bday I had pics of her from each year, so if you want to see my baby growing up, 
then we had all kinds of halloween fun (even though our trunk or treat was cancelled b/c of rain)...I'll just post pics-pumpkin carvings, lucy's class pics, the girls in costumes and trick or treating....they don't need much explanation...
Last weekend we had a little (early) bday party for Lucy (who will be 5!!!!! on the 20th) but that is a whole other post!! I may post that a little closer to her bday. Hopefully it will not be this long again till I write again! It seems like so many times I have all these ideas and thoughts in my head to write about and they sound so good in my head, but then when I write it, it just doesn't come out the same. I am so not a writer!
