Christmas Day

On Christmas morning, we woke up and waited on the stairs with cousins to go open presents at the Martin's house.  With kids, that stuff all happens early in the morning, so after that we went up to Salt Lake with my family for our traditional Christmas morning brunch.  This is one of my favorite things about Christmas morning and I definitely ate a ton.  After brunch, we opened presents and then watched the kids play together with some of their new things.  Then back to the Martin's so that the girls could take the afternoon naps they desperately needed.  Once the girls woke up, we headed back up to Salt Lake for an extended Smith family Christmas dinner with all of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandma.  There wasn't enough room at anyone's house for everyone so we did it at my parent's church up there in the gym area.  We had a huge, delicious dinner, opened more presents, and visited with relatives that we don't get to see very much.  It was a fun time!  We unfortunately had to end the night a little early again though to take Claire to the urgent care.  She was still sick, inconsolable, and had only eaten about 3 ounces in over 24 hours.  After getting her to finally drink a bottle of pedialyte, she ended up being okay and gradually got better over the next few days.

 Lucy had the best reactions when opening gifts this year.  I loved it.

 Ryan got me an OPI gel nail kit.  It's been so fun to have.  I felt like a little kid on Christmas because I had a "toy" that I wanted to open right away and play with. :)

 Lucy and Lynnlee giving each other hugs.

 I loved the pictures we got of Lucy with her great-grandma Smith.

 My extremely talented and crafty mom made all of these cute stockings for her grandkids.

 Lucy and Ashlynn had tons of fun opening presents together.  They got a lot of similar toys, which was fun.

 I know these are just a ton of pictures in a row of Lucy with pom-poms, but I have to add them all because her reaction was so awesome.  My mom hit the nail on the head with this gift, apparently.

 Too much excitement for Claire.

 Lucy opening a Santa gift with grammy.

 Doing nails during nap time.

Most of my aunts/uncles/cousins from the family dinner on Christmas night.  My parents did such a great job with decorating and food, but I still have to get more pictures of this from Lisa.