Merry Christmas Ya'll

Christmas Eve...before Santa came...

Post Santa...he even left his "Turner" bag...

My morning started bright and EARLY, 4:40am to be exact with Avery crying her sweet little face off. So her and I spent some quality time together, rocking in her room, pacing on the 2nd floor and finally flopping around in our bed before Olivia started to stir around 7am.  I called my Parents and told them Olivia was waking up and to head over and I went to wake Brad up, who was sleeping in the guest room (many reasons, one of which being he was snoring his face off and secondly, I didn't want Avery to wake him up too).

Notice her facial expressions starting to change...

And the mad dash is on..

Everyone was here and the tree was lit by 7:45am, waiting for the two little ones to make there way down the stairs to ensure that the big jolly fellow had blessed this house, and sure enough, he did. Santa was very good to us.  The sausage rolls and cinnamon rolls were in the oven, the coffee was ready and the present opening commenced.  The girls went nuts. Olivia was going from present to present, and being that she can't read the tags, she was just opening anything and everything she came across, no one seemed to mind and everyone was happy to share their presents with the girls...it is of course, as we all know, all about the children now.

Olivia's reaction to Dora driving the Arctic Cat..."hey, what is old Dora doing driving my car?"

Look at the excitement...

You can almost hear it in the photos...

Notice who claimed the driver's seat...lord help us.

The Early Bird...gets the worm.

The girls were thrilled with all their presents and the only tears I saw out of Avery was when her new Crocs wouldn't fit over her footie PJ's...don't mess with the girl and her shoes.

Throwing caution to the wind...

Checking out the snow...

Brad's Parents made the trek up here instead of us going to Bassett for a few days, so we are all curled up watching Knight and Day on our new Blu-Ray player (Thanks Mom & Dad) admiring the beautiful snow from the comfort of our warm and cozy home...now if we only had a fireplace.

Avery's new Backpack

Time to rest...

Bina helping the girls open up their "groceries"

Bina opening up the "hand-print" table runner...more to come on that later.

Avery loves her PawPaw

We hope that ya'll had a great day making new memories with family and friends. The Turner Family is looking forward to what 2011 is going to bring to our family and to all of you.