Christmas 2009

I finally got my computer back and working. I was without my computer for 3 weeks and it was a LONG three weeks. So, I feel like I've got a lot of updating to do. We'll start with Christmas. It was a good year and we were very blessed this year. Santa was a very generous this year to us. Here is the tree after Santa left the presents.

This is Charlottes first Christmas. Here she is in front of the tree on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa to come. She did very well with never pulling anything off the tree. She actually never went near it. It was the 4 1/2 year old that couldn't leave the tree alone!
David was very excited about finding this hat that actually fit his head. He mentioned months ago that he wanted it, but it slipped my mind until a few days before Christmas. Luckily I was still able to get one. And he was most excited about the Bose ipod docking station Santa brought him.
Carmen was the most excited that morning. Her excitement was overwhelming at times and we had to keep telling her to calm down. It was fun to see how happy she was about each new thing.
We thought it was going to be a long morning when Aliza came down the stairs and immediately started crying when she saw her new bike. It wasn't the one she wanted. It was purple (her favorite color), but she had told Santa she wanted a pink one. (I really had no idea she had a color preference) And to be honest, when I bought the bike, I had no idea what color it was until we opened it to put it together. But she soon forgot about the bike and got excited about the other presents. She insisted I take a picture of every present she opened. However, it's almost a full week after Christmas and she has yet to touch the bike....