Ayers Rock: Our wonderful Christmas 2009

What a great Christmas. This was the first one where I felt relaxed all the way through. I think I'm learning to chill out a bit and not worry so much about crumbs on the floor or messy rooms. What a difference it makes when you let go of things like that, go with the flow, and think "I can clean it later". :)

We had a house full. Dan's Mom (Grandma Kim) and his Grandparents (Grandma and Grandpa Cassidy) came to our place Christmas Eve. Then Christmas Day my parents showed up (Grandpa Gimpy and Granny Bubbles). For dinner we had more guests - my brother Danny, his wife Jodi and their two little boys: cousins Natty and Isaac. We enjoyed a delicious meal together (I forgot to take a picture of it, darn it!), then the kids spent about 45 minutes playing hide-and-go-seek with Bubbles. Here are some pictures of the holiday:

Putting out milk and cookies for Santa. Kassidy figured he wanted chocolate milk.

Christmas morning, walking down the stairs to see if Santa showed up.

Kassidy and Daddy, checking out the cookie crumbs and missing milk.

The stocking!

Her Santa gift: her baby woolley mammoth

Oh, and Santa found a baby T-Rex too. :)

That's a BIG baby!

Kassidy excited for Daddy to open the Batman she bought him. It was all her idea. I got him a bat house. I hope we get some bats living in it this summer to eat up the mosquitoes!

Me and Kassidy reading the dinosaur book we got her. Seriously, I don't know why we bought her anything girly. All she wants to play with are her new plastic dinosaurs, read the dinosaur book, watch Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and wear her new Dino shirt. Forget Barbie and puppy dogs!