What a great Christmas!

What a wonderful time of year and a perfect Christmas. We really enjoyed being with my family and going to so many parties that we can't think straight. It was so fun to be with so much of our extended family and eat a lot of good food. The only drawback to the busy schedule was that our sweet Katelyn didn't get to sleep very early so we're way off schedule. We're hoping that with a couple days of attempting a normal napping schedule that she'll be a happy camper.

You know, as a new mom and dad, Dave and I were surprised with how fun and easy it was to spoil Katelyn for Christmas. Spoil is a relative term, but we loved shopping for little presents and things we thought she'd like. How fun for us. :)

We started out with a pajama-rama sponsored by my brother and his beautiful wife. It was a riot, complete with a pillow fight, the Smurf Christmas movie, the Chipmunk Christmas movie, pizza, and a jello salad with Smurf cut-out jello jigglers (that was Dave and my contribution :) ). What a party. Oh yeah, we also had a fun white elephant/$1 gift game. Look for the picture with Dave and my mom and their great headbands below.

Here's a few pictures of our fun week. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of our Savior like we did.

Katelyn hanging out at the Pajama-rama.












Mom stealing my new Christmas present.













Mom and Mel attacking the kids.












Watch out for Grandma kids!!












Our fancy Smurf salad. Dave cut out the jigglers himself.












My sister Shannon and I after playing our Sleigh Ride duet. We haven't played it for years, but it was a lot of fun. :)













Scott and Mel as our Mary and Joseph.



















Some of our angels.












Katelyn getting ready for her part as a shepherd.












The cast/family.












Christmas morning... what is it Katelyn? A whole bag of ponies!