Christmas Festivities

Our family had a wonderful Christmas in St. George. It was our first Christmas by ourselves so we made sure to take extra pictures so family could see the festivities.

Here we are with our Christmas loot. Of course, we were spoiled.

It is a tradition in my family to neatly lay out all your gifts and sit next to them for a picture. This is done on Christmas and birthdays.

Dan actually laid out all of his gifts by himself, with a little coaching from me, telling him that the bigger gifts have to go in the back so you can see the smaller ones. I think he is slowly getting the hang of it.

Here I am. If you look closely I got a certain gift THREE times! How many people can say that?! Apparently I was supposed to get that gift.

Merry 1st Christmas to Alayna!! Here she is with some of her unopened gifts.

And now here she is with all of her gifts after we opened them! As you can see, she likes them a lot!This gift was given to her by all of her Aunts and Uncles on my side. She loves looking at herself in the mirror.
Our Christmas feast! Since this was our first Christmas on our own, it was our first Christmas meal made by yours truly AND Dan! After I took the picture I realized I left off a couple things, like our yummy pasta salad, the delicious drink, and the superb dessert. When we were finished, it looked like we had not even touch the food since there was just the two of us. We won't have to worry about making dinner for the next few days.

Left overs!

The feast up close. YUM!

Miss Alayna in her Christmas outfit.

Here she is with her Christmas bib doing what she likes most...slobbering on her hands!

Finally, we caught a big smile on camera! Mission accomplished. Mind you, it's fuzzy due to her moving, and Dan moving as fast as he could to get her picture without her seeing the camera. Maybe one of these days she will smile for the camera on her own and not be so distracted by it.

(I was playing patty cake with her. She loves it.)

Alayna is wearing one of the headbands that Santa gave her.
Alayna talking with Daddy.

One last Christmas picture of Mommy and Alayna!