Christmas Break 2012

Christmas with a toddler is MAGIC!  Seriously, so much fun talking about Santa and his reindeer and more importantly baby Jesus and Mary and Joseph....I'm pretty sure she was more interested in the sheep that are inevitably present in the story but, it's progress none the less!

This picture is purely for my vanity.  I spent most of Christmas baking and wrapping and playing with Kylea and it SHOWS in the photos....I look terrible.   So here is me looking not so terrible. There.

 Kevin was able to take off 2 weeks this year!  We have really enjoyed having him home to participate in our adventures and Kylea has REALLY loved it, Daddy is a good sport.   Here he is as a human table.  Every time she added something new to his back, Kylea would cackle and say, "I did it!"

We stopped by hangtime sports in Lehi which I HIGHLY recommend to anyone and everyone.  It's basically a room filled with trampolines and obstacles for kids to run, climb and jump on.  Kylea had a BLAST! And....it's only $4 for 30 min. which was plenty for our 2 year old.

 Happy girl in the foam pit

 After we were done jumping around we wandered around the rest of the sports complex and Kylea and Daddy shot some hoops together.

 Watching football with Daddy and eating a cookie.

 Watching The Grinch with Daddy and eating popcorn.

On Christmas Eve we made our own pizza and Kylea decorated (aka gobbled it up as fast as she could) a gingerbread house.

 Then, we opened a couple Christmas Eve presents...

 she was hilarious when she opened this one up.  She gasped loudly and exclaimed, "A MOOMIE (movie) for Ky-Ky!!!!"

She also go to open a book which she carefully flipped through before tossing it aside and requesting we watch her new movie.

Christmas morning started off bright and early.  We were up by 5:45 and in the kitchen making our traditional Christmas breakfast of tea roll!

Kylea was big enough this year that she could help which she LOVED.

She helped roll the balls of dough.

 And then plopped them in the pan.

But her specialty is taste tester.  She declared raw biscuit dough to be, "delicious!"

She could barely wait for prayer to be over so she could eat some tea roll!

   Then of course presents!!!

 This had to be her favorite present of all....

 a tea set!

After the tea set she was done unwrapping presents (though she still had a few left) and wanted to sit at her new table and play tea party....or as she calls it, "soup!"

ND national championship shirt!  Let's go Irish!!

We played tea party for the rest of the day.

GG always send the prettiest clothes.  This outfit was by far Kylea's favorite, she calls it princess dress and it makes her feel VERY princessey and beautiful.  She decided her toes weren't princessey enough so she pestered Daddy to paint them until he did.  She spent the next little while dancing circles in the living room while singing an improvised princess song.

BEST. CHRISTMAS. EVER!