Christmas 2009

This Christmas season has been so fun for us,

Lexi has been so excited about all the lights, the

tree, all the decorations, the Holiday music, and

getting to spend so much time with family.

We spent Christmas Eve with my family as

usual. (Sorry no pictures I forgot my camera)

We had a wonderful Christmas dinner that was

Lexi Christmas Morning

so yummy, My mom always makes the best Christmas Dinner. Then all the kids did a live

nativity and it was so fun to watch the little ones try and do there parts and last long enough for

Grandpa to finish reading the story.

(Lexi and her daddy eating her candy)

Then it was time to open our Christmas PJ's,
usually at this point we all go to bed. But this

year we didn't seep at my parents which was so

weird for me. But it was really nice to do

Christmas morning with just my little family.

The tradition in my family is that you get up at

5:00am and open presents, and then my dad

makes a great breakfast and we just spend the rest of the day being lazy. But the tradition in

Kent's family is totally opposite they didn't get up until eight and then they had to wait for there

dad to get up and get ready for the day.

So this year Kent put his foot down and said that were doing it his way, to tell the truth I was

kind of excited to get to sleep in. Little did I know the Hartley child in me didn't think that was a

good idea. (or maybe it was just the baby) So

Kent and I put Lexi to bed and finished getting

things ready for Christmas morning and went to

bed expecting a good night sleep. But I was too

excited to see Lexi's face the next morning, I

woke up every hour and a half ready to get up I

felt like a little kid again staying up all night on

Christmas Eve just waiting for my mom and dad to let us out to see what Santa brought, the

only difference was I was the mom begging the dad to let me go wake up the kids to go see what

Santa brought. Even though I already knew.

So finally after a LONG restless night Lexi came walking into our bedroom at 7:30 and I got

even more excited but of course we had to make it a little more difficult than that for her so I had

to pretend to be asleep and let her try to get us up, ya right that lasted all 2 min and I was up

and ready to go. It was so fun to watch my Beautiful little girl's eyes get big when she saw what

Santa brought and the joy she had playing baby's with her daddy. And seeing my wonderful

Husband playing with his little girl and the joy he got from the SMILE on her face. I think this

was the best Christmas ever and I can't wait until next year to do it all over again.