Straddle Jumps

A little break from opening presents...time to practice their straddle jumps on the trampoline.

Camryn

Kristin

Christmas at Grandma's

1st stop (after opening Santa's presents) was Grandma Erlinger's house.  This year Walt's sister, her husband and their son, Mark, joined us via Skype because they are living in St. Louis now and couldn't be here in person.  The girls had fun running over to the computer every so often and holding up their presents to show what they had received.

Traditions at Grandma's house:

(at Thanksgiving) Each person hangs their individual ornaments on tree

(at Christmas) Matching sweatshirts for family photo

Presents first, then stockings

Always breakfast food to eat

 

Kristin

Camryn and Kristin

Camryn and Kristin singing with Santa's microphone

Kristin

Camryn

Camryn

Camryn

The Erlinger crew - complete with Skype attendees

Christmas Evening

On Christmas evening, we finished opening presents at our house.  The girls helped pass out presents and had a blast opening more presents.  Their favorite part was trying everything on as they opened it.

Camryn with new hat and scarf

K and C working on reading to/from labels on the presents

Camryn trying on a hat box

Christmas Morning 2011

We started Christmas day at our house - we let the girls open their presents from Santa and they presents that they picked out for each other. 

All they asked for from Santa was a brown teddy bear and puppy slippers.  Who knew that brown teddy bears were so hard to find?  I guess it is a good thing that Santa had to find that one.

This year we thought the girls were old enough to pick out presents for each other so I took them one at a time to the book store and let them pick out a few books for each other.  They were so cute deciding which books to get

Finding their presents from Santa

Kristin with her teddy bear

Camryn with her teddy bear

Cookies for Santa

After writing letters to Santa, the girls received letters back from Santa!  They were so excited!  In his letter, Santa specifically asked for cookies and milk for himself, and carrots for his reindeer.  After hearing that, the girls were on a mission.  First up - cookies. 

Kristin icing her first cookie

Kristin pausing for a picture

Camryn icing her first cookie

Camryn, Kristin and me - all hard at work decorating cookies

Camryn starting to decorate

Kristin working on decorating

Camryn decorating with Skittles

Kristin all done!  One for Santa and one for her.

Camryn done!  One for Santa and one for her.

Cookie decorating queens

Finished product!

Looking like she got busted...eating the cookies they decorated for themselves

Kristin - Showing me her fingers that she had been licking and using to pick up all the sugar and sprinkles that fell on the plate

Camryn - guilty of eating sugar and sprinkles

Camryn - cookies are yummy!

Kristin - delicious