Christmas Wrap Up...sort of

Christmas is over.....for now. We have one left when we travel up north, but until then all signs of Christmas are put away - except for the toys ;-) We all had a great Christmas!! The kids smiled and giggled a lot and that's what matters! This year, after church Nana, Papa and (great) Grandpa came over for an amazing steak dinner followed by the children heading to bed to wait for Santa to deliver their gifts. Annddd....this year we dropped the ball :( we had to wake Kynzley up to set out cookies and milk for Santa and oats and an apple for the reindeer. Come on parents get with the program!!!!

On Christmas morning Kynzley was pumped and ready to go! She ran down the steps ready to tear into everything under the tree, Benton was just going with the flow - ha! As she tore into her first gift - boom - camera dies (of course) Ugh!!! Stop, Stop, Stop everything! Back a way from the gifts! Yes, I was that mean mommy on Christmas that made her stop, sit on the couch and wait for my camera to charge enough to catch some smiles. It didn't take long and then she dove right in! There were a lot of "Yes!!!", "I've always wanted this!", "OH. MY. GOODNESS!" It's so fun to watch her reaction. Benton opened his gifts but was more into the paper and bows that anything else! I think he was confused as to why his sister was running around and so excited :) Next year he'll be right along side her in excitement I'm sure!

Merry Christmas

Cody finding his gifts :)

I think we nailed it :)

I'm guessing she wanted this!

Elfy's last days in the Holicky house:

Playing doctor

Hiding 

Kynzley LOVES gum! Elfy ate all the gum but left her the icky white ones - she was NOT happy! He did leave her a note saying that if she had a good day he would bring her more.

Elfy's last day - he kept his word and brought her more gum, delivered their xmas jammies and left a note reminding them to behave this year so he comes back next year!

-We did miss taking a few pics: Elfy was taped to our mirror above the mantel and Jesse and Woody from Toy Story were shooting darts at him and he was also found one day in the toilet paper roll in our down stairs bathroom.