Christmas!

Christmas Eve night we were lucky enough to be visited by the big man in red. Santa left quite the spread under the tree!

The hubby also worked really hard in HIS workshop to build me my very own custom backdrop stand. It will be perfect for my tiniest clients that are all due this spring and summer! Oh how I can't wait to get some newborn photo shoots under my belt!

The whole scene. Hubby tried his best to get my gift under the tree. This was as close as he could get it! A+ for effort. 

A little Christmas Eve tradition that the hubby and I started this year {that I hope will stick} is to clean the house before bed on Christmas Eve. I cannot tell you how nice it was to wake up on Christmas morning to a sparkling clean house. All we had to do was open presents, cook some breakfast, and not worry about any messes or dishes. If your house is like mine during the holidays then it is usually covered in a layer of baking dust, wrapping paper, toys, and decorations. It was nice to not have any of that when we woke up Christmas morning!

We had to taste test the cookies and make sure they were okay for Santa ;-)

Someone was happy on Christmas morning!

Her first look. She was so cute taking it all in!

We take life documentation seriously in our family. This might be my favorite picture of these two from Christmas morning. 

TIME TO OPEN PRESENTS!

Baby girl LOVED opening her presents!

This picture may be blurry but I love it. She was just giddy about her first present!

She just cracks us up all day long. Silly girl

After opening all of her presents we got her rocking horse out and let her ride it while we got breakfast ready. She LOVES it. Although she has also decided she wants to be a trick rider. NOT okay with mommy. Standing on the horse=not safe. So the horsey has been moved to the basement for the time being. 

Is he not the BEST? He grilled our bacon outside because while I LOOOOVE me some bacon...I do not love the way it makes our house smell. So he rocks for going out on the deck in the cold to make me happy :-) 

Emma Claire wanted to model the scarf she got me for Christmas. Doesn't she have great taste? I love it!

We had a great low key Christmas day and loved every moment of it. And we ended the day on a great note, by reading the true story of Christmas and celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savoir, Jesus Christ. Emma Claire was so good and cute the whole time hubby was reading. We had both of our bibles in the bed and while hubby was reading out of his, Emma Claire played with mine and flipped through the pages. Such a sweet moment. That is a tradition that we will continue the rest of our lives. It's the most important one, after all!

"Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord." Luke 2:11