Christmas!

We decided to do Christmas with just us this year which we loved!  It was so much fun to have our own little family to celebrate with on Christmas day.  Randy ended up waking up first... WHAT?!?!?!?!  Apparently he couldn't sleep any more at 6:30 am... I noticed him waking up and decided to get up to... well, Lena happened to be in her not-deep sleep cycle and woke up from that!  We decided to let her stay up and to go see what Santa brought for her.  She was so much fun and loved opening all of her presents.  She got a lot of drawing type things and some farm animals that she loves to play with.  

Around 7:30 am we were able to talk to Eva on SKYPE!!! Which was awesome... especially since skype was up to speed this time, with little delay in our conversation. :)  She is doing great and is so happy and cute!  It really made me ready to see her in person!  It will come soon I'm sure! 

Here are some pictures from our Christmas Eve and  morning:

Christmas Eve:  Lena opening up her new jammies which she was SO excited about... in fact!  She was SUPER excited to go to bed so that she could sleep in her new jammies... she bolted for the stairs to head to her bedroom after putting them on.

Christmas Morning:

Kitty helping to open one of her presents

Lena's lute

Randy's lute... a new backpacking pack and a backpacking tent.

My lute:  Randy surprised me with a hot chocolate maker!!! It's been so fun to have hot chocolate from this fancy machine.  Another one of my favorites was the much needed, new silverware to replace the maybe-you-can-all-it-silverware that we paid $5 shortly after getting married. :)  Yay for rustless forks and unbent butter knives. :)

Lena wearing the Santa hat. :)