Santa Came To Town

Santa came this year for us on Saturday Jan 4, 2014, better late than never. We opted to wait to until we could all be together as a family and we are so glad we did. We will say it was hard to get into the Christmas spirit and for both of us we would have loved to just put this holiday season behind us but we knew we couldn't do that to the girls. So on Christmas eve (Jan 3), we stayed up late putting together Siena's princess car and made sure to eat the cookies (leaving some crumbs) that Siena and Jenn made earlier that day.

When the girls got up Saturday morning they were so excited once they saw there gifts from santa they didn't care about anything else. We spent the beautiful morning outside watching them drive around and got wistful about how they will probably do this together when they are teenagers, or at least we hope they will.

Our families were able to join us for brunch and to get into the spirit we put on the holiday music (thanks to Pandora), turned on the Christmas lights on the 'extreme fire hazard' of a dead Christmas tree and exchanged gifts. We felt grateful that our families went along with the delayed Christmas even though we knew it was weird for them too. In the end we were so happy we got to celebrate and capture a photo for our 2013 Christmas ornament to have a fonder memory when we look back.