My CHRISTmas

First, today is my dad's birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Second, here is all the details of what took place Christmas day at my house. I woke up at 9am but everyone else was already awake. We had bagels and toast for breakfast because my younger sister insisted that a big breakfast takes too much time before opening gifts! LOL

So everyone piled into the family room and started the unwrapping of many gifts. My favorite part is probably seeing each reaction to each gift. Its always a face of joy and gratitude (no one gets unwanted gifts at our house)! We turned on the Walt Disney Christmas Parade hosted by Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa and I took a picture of that and David Archuleta (the runner up to this years American "idol" winner) was showing some of the newer attractions in Disney World:

Well I know some of you are wondering what I received for Christmas so I will not make you wait any longer. I got............

• A pair of LA gear casual flats (loooove it)



• a box of Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate covered Shortbread cookies (can someone say Mmmm...)



• A 2009 Horse Calendar from my sister



• A box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates from my brother



• 2 magnetic games for car rides or whenever



• The Martyr's Song trilogy by Ted Deker (really good from the first 50 pages i've read)


• An AWESOME pair of creme colored cloves that are totally my style (my mom has good taste)


• An Easy Acrylics art book


• $25 dollars in cash from my Great Aunt Cheryl


• A generous $25 Kohls gift card and homemade English Toffee from the nice lady I babysit for


• A $10 Kohls gift card from my BFFWILLAS, Kaitlyn


• A pair of TOTALLY cute ballet flat American Eagle shoes (they were an early gift so I wore them to all Christmasy places)


• super cute winter pj's from my mom and dad


• a cute horse necklace from my aunt, uncle and cousins


• and more gifts are coming when I see my grandparents (from my dad and mom's side) on Saturday!!! I am sooo richly blessed to have a white and wonderful Christmas this year!

A picture of my gifts (top) and my baby brother AJ checking out the Little Einsteins rocket car that my dad, brother and I got for him. He likes it a TON!

After opening gifts, we all got ready to go to my Aunt Tina's for a Chirstmas lunch/dinner. We had tons of food from Brownies to Turkey. My cousins tree was huge! They have a cathedral ceiling in their living room so the tree was probably 10 -12 feet tall. We had a really nice time together. We played a grab gift game and I received a huge coconut chocolate mousse candle. My mom got a beautiful bracelet and my dad a $10 gift card to a restaurant. It was real fun! Since my cousins are an hour drive away, we didn't get home until 7pm or so. I was sooo tired from playing with cousins and eating sooo much food! : ) It was a Christmas I will never forget!

Well don't forget to count your blessings and if you didn't get your wishlist item, something better is coming from God!

Blessings and Merry Christmas, Butterfly