Christmas with the Meyers

What a Christmas it was for our family this year! I love Christmastime, I love that Madeline actually got the idea of Santa, oh what fun it will be next year when Morgan will understand, and sweet Isabelle slept through most of the festivities, what an angel... It started for us the night before Christmas Eve actually. We made the Christmas Eve stew the day before, or I should say Corbett did, along with Madeline's help. She loved helping daddy cut the veggies. We also made Santa's cookies that night. I think the girls spent most of the time just eating the dough. On Christmas Eve, we had my parents, Libby and Adam, and Corbett's mom over for stew and many appetizers. It was ALL delicious. On Christmas day morning the girls discovered that Santa had come to our house! What a treat it was for them to open gifts from Santa. Maddie asked for a train set, Morgan wanted something green and Isabelle wanted a rattle (that's what Maddie and Morgan claimed). Ask and they shall receive....it was a fun morning! Wish we could have had more time playing with the trainset, but we needed to head to Lake City to spend the afternoon with the Fuchs side of the family. We always have a good time seeing everyone, this year there were around 45 people at my grandparents house. It's always a house full, and it's always a good time!


The night before Christmas Eve Madeline and Corbett made the stew for Christmas Eve lunch...it made me a little nervous with her using this knife, she did use a paring knife for most of the preparation


There is a lot of cutting of vegetables for the stew


My little bakers, we had to make Santa chocolate chip cookies



Are you guys eating the cookies?


Isabelle helped too


Morgan and Madeline in their Christmas dresses



The Meyer girls


The Meyer fam


After lunch we opened gifts from Grandma Meyer, Grandma and Grandpa Fuchs, and Auntie Libby and Uncle Adam. This is Maddie yelling "EEEWWWW" she is having so much fun opening gifts, and she just opened a spider floatie, she loves it! And she can't wait to use it in grandma's "cool" as she calls it


Morgan wore this for most of the gift opening, it brings back memories of last year when she wore a bike helmet the entire time...what a cutie!


Morgan finally gets a "packpack" just like her big sister


Madeline and her cash register, just like Carina and Daria's


Morgan LOVES to vaccuum so she got a vaccuum for Christmas, hopefully she'll still like it in few years and really want to help mom


I think Corbett got this shirt (along with another) to mock my "Life is Good" t-shirts, don't get me wrong I think they are funny....FYI- I did get another Life is Good t-shirt for Christmas, I love em!


Sweet Isabelle, she wants to partake in the gift opening


This girl cracks me up




Getting Santa's cookies out, maybe he'll come while we are sleeping


HE DID! And he brought a train set, Morgan asked for something green, so she got a green car for the train set...they LOVE it!


My cousin, Justin, is home on leave from Iraq! It was a total surprise that he was coming home. It was SO GOOD to see him. We think about him often and pray to keep him safe.


My grandpa and grandma are busy making sure everything is ready to go...the Christmas day tradition is spaghetti, and let me tell you this is the best spaghetti sauce you have ever had, and I have the secret recipe!


Madeline loves spaghetti


Morgan eating hers with Aunt Diane


Santa's little helper, Madeline and Morgan helped pass out gifts this year


The great grandkids minus Lucas...there are 2 more on the way this spring


Isabelle in her super cute outfit...thank you Pete, Leah and Nora :)


Morgan loved all of great grandpa's talking santas

Merry Christmas everyone!