Our 1st REAL Christmas Morning

This was the first year since Joseph and I have been together that he was home for Christmas. Usually we have to have our own Christmas morning a few days after Santa visited everyone else's house. (Wasn't that nice of Santa to make a special trip to our house for our late Christmas each year?) Now he'll be home for Christmas for about the next 10-11 years so every year I'll be getting exactly what I want for Christmas - Joseph! :-)

Katie woke up around 8:10 and was very excited to see what presents Santa brought us but she was also so tired from our late night at Poppy's that she couldn't decide which she wanted more - sleep a little longer or open presents. She kept dozing off and then waking up and being upset because we hadn't gone downstairs yet. So Joseph went down first to make sure Santa had showed up and called us down once he turned on the lights and set up the camera. Katie was kind of dazed still but was excited to go downstairs.

Someone ate the cookies and drank the milk... Guess Santa was here!

Peeking around the corner to check it all out

She opened one gift - slippers, made this face and
then said "I think we should have breakfast first."

We tried to convince her to open more gifts but she wasn't having it! While Joseph made her favorite breakfast - peanut butter oatmeal - she fell asleep right next to her unopened presents!

A few minutes later, she woke up and patiently waited to eat breakfast on her new tray.

Then it was finally time to open presents...

She told us this was her favorite present

Time to set up the new game

Katie's "not quite awake yet" look

Game Time