I'm dreaming of a white Christmas....

We had a great Christmas! Olivia woke us up at 7:30 and we started the day off with some coffee and a yummy cinnamon roll breakfast.  Even Olivia got to have a cinnamon roll!! Hey--it was Christmas. :)

After that was finished up, we moved into present opening.  Olivia's one big gift from us was a doll, so that was the first gift she opened.  She was sort of meticulous about the ripping of the paper, so she had some help with most of them.

Do you know how hard it was to find a brown haired baby?  And this one still looks pretty dark skinned.  Ay yi yi.  Olivia wasn't born bald, and she doesn't have blond hair.  This doll finding business was challenging.

Next, she opened a doll stroller from my mom.

She put her baby in and took her right for a ride.

We got her one of those disappearing bottles.  She has used the nose aspirator and nail clippers on her stuffed animals, so I figured a bottle for her doll was a necessity.

One of our "traditions" is to get her a Disney movie each year, so that we are slowly building a library.  Michael only wants blu rays and you know those can be pricey.  Target had Cinderella on sale for $15 around Thanksgiving, so that is this year's selection. :)

She just kept wanting to play after every gift, so we kept having to try to coax her into opening the next gift.

I bought a "lot" of books off of a facebook consignment sale about two months ago.  She really didn't need any more books, but these were in excellent condition and were really good priced.  There were quite a few Elmo books in the bunch and they were the kind of books that taught shapes, colors, animals, opposites, etc.  So I bought them and put them away for a gift. Of course, she loves them.

Besides the Disney movie and Christmas pajamas, we are getting her an ornament each year.  I ended up waiting a little too long to order, but she is getting this one.

We are wanting to get ones that will be classy enough that she will want to hang on her tree when she moves out, but hopefully still sort of represent her age for that year.  (Yes, I know. Totally overthinking it.  That's what I do! :)

But then we are also getting her snow globes, and these will be more "fun" and what she's into.  I found one last year after Christmas that was on clearance and said "babies first Christmas".  I picked it up.  I figured if we did it every year, then she's have a cool collection.  If we just do it a few times, it's still something fun.  This year's came (50% off) from Hobby Lobby, and is Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

She opened 3 gifts from my sister.  Some play food, an outfit, and a Mr. Potato Head.

Then she opened 3 gifts from my mom.  An outfit, a Scentsy sheep, and a tea set.

At one point I said that she was lucky she was an only child.  This present opening business took forever.  We had all morning though, so we just took our time and let her play as she wanted.

After we had opened all of the gifts, we brought out the two gifts that Michael had assembled.  A doll high chair from his mom and a doll bed from my mom.  Olivia knew JUST what to do!

 Next up was her stocking.  She got some stickers, plastic necklaces and bracelets, 2 animals for her talking zoo, a Mickey Mouse bathtub toy, and 2 pairs of socks.

She also got a lot of other stuff from Michael's mom, including a play kitchen.  Thankfully she had already opened it at Thanksgiving time.  Otherwise we would have been here all day! :)

After all the gifts were opened, she went on to play.

It wasn't long before it was lunchtime and then time for a nap.  We haven't been getting great sleep here the past few weeks, so Michael and I decided to take a nap too.  

It had been raining all morning, but we woke up from our nap to find that it was SNOWING!  Not just a little Texas flurry here and there, but actual snow!  We would have taken Olivia out to play in it, but we were getting ready to head to a friend's house for dinner.  Instead, Michael opened the patio door and showed her.  She started saying "Snowman!".  We have no idea where or how she learned this, since this is technically the first time she's seen snow.  So funny.

One of the girls from my MOPS table invited us over for dinner. It turned out two other girls from our table didn't have any family in town either, so they came as well.  Luckily they live literally 3 minutes from us.

It was really nice.  I am already friends with the 3 girls, and the guys have a lot in common with Michael.  There were 6 kids ranging in age from 12 months old to 6 years.  Olivia had a great time too!

We came home and Olivia went right back to playing with her doll!

It really was the perfect day--special time with our little family, watching Olivia have so much fun, rest and relaxation, SNOW!, friends, and yummy food.  My heart is full.  I hope you had a great Christmas as well!