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.
