Christmas at Home and Santa!

We are headed to TN tomorrow to spend actual Christmas with family, so we celebrated Christmas this morning at home. The girls know about Santa and get excited to see him, but still don't really get the whole Santa comes on Christmas Eve thing. So, we decided we could still travel before they fully understand Santa and have to worry that we will miss him if we aren't home. Gigi got to come in to visit for most of the week and to be here when Santa came. They had such a great morning and loved playing with all of their new toys! The new kitchen from Gigi was a huge hit!

Loving Family Dollhouse

Busy cooking and playing with new puzzles from The Lees

Giant Dora!

Rapunzel! Skylar was so excited to open the huge princess Barbie set...it was the fastest we had ever seen her open a present. She usually just wants us to open gifts for her or lets Savannah help...but as soon as she ripped the first piece of paper and saw Cinderella..she was all over it!

The vacuum was actually a huge hit too- Savannah vacuumed forever this afternoon!

Little People Zoo

KT sent the girls a trampoline for Christmas- how fun!! She got to see how much Savannah loved to jump on the trampoline when she joined us at our Romp and Roll birthday party. Skylar loves it too and was climbing up on it by herself by the end of the day. Thanks KT!

We are headed to Knoxville for Christmas round 2 and to Nashville for round 3!! Lucky girls!

December in Outfits...so far..

The Meece girls know how to rock some Christmas outfits! We have lots of family that love to give them cute holiday outfits...and we also have a super stylish niece that gives us awesome hand me downs! They have had a great month playing with all of their Christmas toys and books that they only get to see once a year.

A sweet sweet hug for our babysitter Fegan...

Thanksgiving and Visitors...

Of course it is almost Christmas now, but I still had to put these super cute Thanksgiving pictures up. We have been busy with lots of fun visitors. Gigi came to visit the week of Thanksgiving and made a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner for us. We had a pretty low key holiday this year with just the five of us. With Target opening at midnight this year, Tyler had to be at work 11:00pm. So, he spent the day doing a combination of hanging out and resting up for the big night. The girls loved having Gigi in town for the week. Here they are in their cute outfits...Savannah is wearing a dress that my mom made for me 30 yrs ago.

Hanging out and playing Thanksgiving morning...

Katie came in for a long weekend and we had such a great time! She got to come with us to a little buddy of ours birthday party at Romp & Roll. She realized all she's been missing on her Friday night schedule is 15 wound up toddlers in a confined area for a couple hours :) The girls had blast of course! We got to do lots of shopping with all the other crazy December shoppers, and she got to experience Ulta for the first time. We ended the weekend with a super yummy Sunday brunch at the Boathouse!

Uncle Ryan came in town for a quick visit too! He was here for a work meeting, but came a day early so he could see everyone and hang out for a bit. The girls were so happy to see him! The girls are getting a kitchen from Santa..and it had just recently arrived and was still in it's box in the dining room. He insisted on just "getting in to it" for a minute....and then a couple hours later..with just minimal instruction reading and part retrieving help from me...he had completely put the whole kitchen together! It was an awesome help and we think the kitchen looks adorable. Can't wait for the girls to see it!
Here he is taking the first call on the new kitchen phone :)