Sunday, December 25, 2016

Christmas Day 2017

Christmas morning started at the crack of dawn, with the kids getting up even earlier than usual. We read the nativity story with the kids using their puppets that Aunty made a few years ago. Alissa was not impressed...





Then the kids wanted to open their Christmas stockings...filled with all the usual suspects; chocolate, undies, socks and a few surprises! 





Zara picked up on the excited vibes around her and had a great morning!




Opening some family gifts from Santa - board games and a blow up slide for the pool 
Alissa asked for two things from Santa - makeup and wizz fizz lollies. Here she is opening her wizz fizz. 
And her makeup...
Grandma gave the girls new school bags for Christmas from Smiggle. They loved them!
Harrison thanking Sienna for her present 
Harrison getting his Creator Lego set from Santa 


Sienna asked Santa for a new pillow...she was very happy!
All dressed for church 


Decorated table for Christmas lunch (thanks K-Mart)


The Lekias family joined us for lunch and brought half the food! It was a lovely, relaxed afternoon. Clint made his famous ham and pork belly. 

Clint also made my favourite turkish delight ice-cream cakes - they are so good!
Some yummy truffles that Nicole made
Traditional Christmas pavlova 

We introduced the Lekias's to Holiday Bingo 

Poor Zara was stuck watching in her playpen because she kept trying to eat the m&m's 
Matthew winning a round!





Sweet baby Gideon 
We then had leftovers for dinner...it was a lovely Christmas. The next day we were packing and cleaning in preparation for moving house in two days time! 

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Christmas Eve 2016

A few photos of Christmas Eve...
Sienna and Alissa sprinkling reindeer food on the lawn

I gave the kids an option to open one present on Christmas Eve, Harrison chose not to. Alissa and Sienna opened their gifts from each other. Here they are in their Christmas pj's from Aunty. 


Trying to get a photo of the kids together on Christmas Eve, here are the best ones I could get - they were WAY too excited. 




After Santa visited...

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