Wow...time flies

We had such a great Christmas this year. Especially with Rachel celebrating her first Christmas. Still seems odd to me that I am married and have two little girls. Hannah was so excited this year when she woke up at about 8am to notice the tree lights were on and that "Santa" had arrived with presents. She had woken up at 2am, 4am and then I decided that Santa better get in gear and get those presents under the tree or I would fall back to sleep again. So, just as I got Hannah back to sleep Rachel woke up. This is very common these days...what is going to happen when Baby #3 comes? So, I woke Mike up and told him I had to get the presents under the tree so he needed to watch Rachel. I finally finished and went back to the bedroom and Rachel was still awake. So her and I came back out to the living room and fell asleep on the couch.

At 7:30am, I woke up realizing Hannah wasn't awake yet and that I should go back to my bed so that when she wakes up she can tell us Santa came. Well she did and it was so funny. It was just about 15 mintues later that she woke up and I heard her feet pitter patter out her door. She looked down the hall and then ran to my room screaming. "Dad, Mom, ...Santa came, Santa came, He really did there are presents under the tree." Mike said, "Oh Hannah, Santa didn't come just come in here and lay down with us". She said so seriously "No, Dad he really did come there are presents under the tree!" "You need to come now and look. I am very serious!" So we all got up and Hannah waited patiently as Daddy had to get some coffee and take care of the dog.

We each took a turn at opening a present and then at the end Hannah had about 5 more presents than Rachel, uh oh, I'll have to do better next year. Anyway, we had fun and Mike and the girls played all day with the new toys.

Another special event is that Rachel started crawling, well scooting on Christmas day. So needless to say the tree was taken down the very next day. She is into everything and she gets where she wants to go really fast. I'm going to try and video her today and post it on facebook. It cracks me up how she crawls.

So, all is said and done with Christmas of 08. We got to spend alot of time with the whole family and this morning Mike is back to work. Hannah is down at Grandma Donna's for a few days since she has Christmas break from school. So, it me and Rach today. Mike's birthday is Wednesday so Hannah is going to help me decorate the house up and make a cake.

Rach is waking up now so gotta go.