Christmas 2015

We had another great Christmas around here! It was fun to have Lyla finally get what was going on a bit. She loved playing with our nativity, and was eager to hear the story of Jesus's birth retold many times. She seemed to know a lot about Santa as well, without Todd or I telling her much about him. He showed up at the end of our ward Christmas party to hand out candy canes to all the kids and she was so cute because she was following him around and saying "Santa, Santa" softly as she followed him around. I realized that she wanted to tell him something, and so I asked her what she wanted to say. She told me "I need to tell Santa to bring me Anna and Elsa and Olaf". I had mentioned to he a few times when she'd tell me she wanted something to tell Santa that she would like that, and it seemed that when she finally saw him, she knew exactly what she was supposed to do! I flagged him down and had her repeat her request and it was super cute. I just wish I had a better picture!

We headed up to the Barfusses' house on Christmas eve for a yummy beef tenderloin dinner. Sarah was kind enough to lend us her room, so we slept over and were there Christmas morning. Christmas day was a lot of fun. Lyla got a dollhouse with some Frozen dolls from Santa, and played really well with them. We loved spending time with family.

Lyla following Santa around 

After telling him her list

Matching pajamas for the Barfuss Girls

Lyla in her Christmas Sunday best

Our Family on Christmas Eve

Finding her stocking

Excited about the Fruit snacks!

Lining up with Aunt Sarah

Santa's present

Everyone getting ready to go downstairs

Running to her Santa present

Gwennie and Lyla playing with the dollhouse

My girls in their jammies on Christmas Morning

A comparison of Lyla and Penny wearing the same Christmas jammies, three years apart. Penny is one month older than Lyla was.

Smiles for Papa

Papa brought this out in the evening on Christmas as a last surprise on Christmas day. I saw him come up the stairs with it and pointed it out to Lyla, thinking she would be really excited about it. Instead, pure terror came over her face and she turned around and ran as fast as she could the other direction and jumped in the arms of the closest adult she could find. Pure terror, I tell you! I wish I had the look on her face and her screams recorded!