Merry Christmas!

We've had a wonderful first Christmas at our house! We started the night with a children's service at church, then enjoyed Christmas eve dinner with Paul's family plus my dad. The best part about a Christmas eve dinner is no cooking on Christmas day - everyone just grazed on left-overs all day!Molly & Daddy sprinkling reindeer food in the yardPutting out Santa's cookiesChristmas morning was perfect. Molly woke up at the crack of dawn which had us scrambling to beat her downstairs. She ran into the living room and was overwhelmed by all that Santa brought her! She got a new bike (purple of course!) an art easel, a purple bean bag chair, a new doll, the "big head" Darth Vader that she saw at Disneyland and a stocking full of goodies!

The three items Molly specifically asked Santa for were a purple bike, big head darth vader and a purple and green hummingbird. The boys checking out Paul's new Nerf gunMolly's mountain of presentsShowing her Chewbacca socks to GrandPappyThe living room when we took a break for breakfastMolly's first picture on her easel... she drew the characters from the BOB early reader books.Ready to cruise the neighborhood to show her friends her new bikePosing with Caden and DavisSweet AdalynHappy Natalie!Caden and Davis in Caden's Papa's camperHelping MiMi make fruit saladPosing with Quimby

More Disney Pictures

Even though all of our pictures were printed and in an album the day after we got back from Disneyland, I am just now getting around to organizing the digital pictures. I realized that I didn't post some of the best ones from our trip!

Character Breakfast our first morning

Molly's first set of Mickey ears!In front of her favorite ride, Star ToursHaving a blast with her Mickey light saberZonked out on a concrete bench at the end of her first day at Disneyland!Day Two started off with a visit to Toontown where all the characters live.Molly & Mickey!

Getting Mickey's autograph. Molly really got into the whole autograph thing! She would chase down characters to get them to sign her book!Molly posing with the tree in Minnie's front yard
Molly and Mommy in front of Donald Duck's houseOn the jack o lantern in Goofy's backyardMolly and Nana blasting aliens on the Buzz Lightyear rideProbably the highlight of the trip for Molly was getting to participate in Jedi training. She wore her Star Wars shirt that day hoping it would help her get picked from the audience!After learning a some light saber skills each kid had a one on one battle with Darth Vader or Darth Mall. I still can't believe my sweet little girl really got into learning how to defeat the dark side.It's a Small World at night - my favorite ride! Like the rest of the park, the entire ride was decorated for Christmas. It was just beautiful inside!Molly and Tirscha on the Tea Cups. I could not stomach this ride more than once but Molly LOVED it!On the carousel with the castle lit up in the background. Molly was very excited that it glowed purple at night!Day 3 was only a half day so we rushed around the park riding each of our favorite rides one last time. Molly and Tirscha got stuck inside It's a Small World for about 45 minutes due to a technical glitch. At least Christmas carols were playing and not the "Small World" song while they waited for the ride to start moving again. Molly got to see Santa, his reindeer and Mrs. Claus at Santa's village.