Christmas Presents with Grandma & Great Grandma

Emily was so cute opening her presents at Great Grandma's house.  Here she is opening her first present from Great Grandma.

Yeah, gardening tools, which she wanted to take out of the package right away!

Thanks Great Grandma!

Here is is trying out her new camera from Grandma.

After we were done with presents Emily all of a sudden broke out with charades and was pretending to be a Christmas tree in this picture.  

Here is a picture of Emily and I playing with her new baby from Grandma.  Emily absolutely loves it, it cries, laughs, says ma ma, burps, snores, and sucks on a bottle (making noises).  

We had a great time hanging out with Jim's family.  Emily was our entertainment, we did a few puzzles too, but mostly she played with her new toys and we watched her.  Emily can be pretty entertaining!

Also, we had my favorites for lunch, Jim's mom made homemade Chicken & Rice Soup and Orange Rolls, and I brought a salad and cookies, plus a cheese ball that Jim's grandmother had.  YUM!   

Emily likes to be Girlie

I ended up at Gymboree a couple of days after Christmas and bought Emily a lot of summer clothes which she will get for her Birthday in May.  One thing I gave her now which is this little skirt that she has been prancing around the house in.  Right away she put it on over her clothes.  It was funny seeing how she walked with her hands on her hips and with a little attitude, I have no idea where she learned that at?

Opening Presents with my Family

We were excited to finally spend some time with my sister Linda and her family yesterday.  They had been keeping their distance because Joshua & Caleb had colds.  Emily was very excited to spend the afternoon and evening with Caleb & Joshua.

Caleb & Joshua got Nintendo DS for Christmas so they were pretty busy with their new toys, Emily looked on and thought they were pretty cool!

She said "my turn next" but I don't think Joshua & Caleb heard her.

Here is Emily "reading" her new book to me which she had never seen before, so basically she just told me what was in the pictures seeing she doesn't have it memorized yet!

Emily opening up her new game.

Just as I thought, Linda LOVED her new Snuggie I got her, Jim teased me that I bought her one, but who knows her better?  Linda also liked her hand bag holder, but unfortunately the black pants from Ann Taylor were not a perfect fit!  Darn seeing I got a great deal!

Mom liked her Pampered Chef digital thermometer and Talbot's gift card!

Dad liked his instant Starbucks coffee, which he will need during tax season!

Jim liked his "wrinkle free" red shirt & tie!

And of course LOVED his new Smart Wool socks (these are the best if you don't have a pair yet)!

Jim hanging out with Joshua.

We opened our gifts during nap time, after we were done, Emily laid down in front of the tree with a pillow, I thought it was so cute!

Jim and I had to leave for a meeting, so Emily stayed to hang out with her cousins.  We were bummed to get a phone call that she woke up from a short nap with a 101.5 fever.  I am praying so hard that this morning she wakes up with no fever and we don't catch the bug she had yesterday.  I wore a mask and kept my distance which was incredibly hard.  Of course I had to hold her some and she kept asking me to take my mask off.  I just don't know if I can handle another bug with this pregnancy, I've already had 3, but it's bound to happen because I still have several months left and most of them are winter.  UGH.  We still had a good time at dinner last night, and surprisingly even with her fever Emily was still playing and making jokes when we got home.

FYI - Steve liked his Lowe's gift card too, unfortunately I didn't get a picture of him opening his gift.  Sorry Steve!

Weidmayer Christmas Party with SANTA

Our Christmas parties are winding down, last night we had our large Weidmayer Christmas party.  I'm not sure how many were there, but a lot, my dad usually tries to come home with an estimate, I'll have to ask him today what he thought.

Santa showed up to the party and he walked right up to Emily and said hi, and to my surprise she didn't get too scared and said hi to him!

Here is Emily getting her gift from Santa, she went up there all by herself!

This is Emily coming over to me with her gift from Santa, could her smile be any bigger?

Emily opened up her present from Santa ...

and loved it!  She got an Elmo sticker book and a My Little Pony magnet book, perfect for church!

Here is Steve, Mom and Jim hanging out right before we started playing bingo.  That was a lot of fun, but we didn't stay too late seeing we were tired from all of the parties and wanted to get Emily to bed a little bit closer to her normal schedule.  I think she was in bed about 20 to 10, but was still up at 10:15, I think we may have to cut out the naps and then she will be able to go to sleep better at night.  I just hate to give them up!

A Little Bit of Snow

It snowed a little bit yesterday, and Emily really wanted to go outside and play in the snow.  So Emily and I got bundled up and played outside at my parents house.  I can't wait for us to actually get some snow, this dusting stuff you really can't do anything with.  I think Emily was just happy to be outside running around, I was so tired from the Christmas parties, I wasn't very excited to go outside, but the fresh felt good.  

Christmas Train

My parents set up a Christmas tree and train in their bedroom at Christmas time.  Emily wanted to show the train to Uncle Dave yesterday, here they are waiting for the tree to come ...

Uncle Dave is blowing the whistle on the train

They had a lot of fun with the train, in fact I am not sure who had more fun?

Helping Uncle Dave Open His Present

Emily has really enjoyed Uncle Dave, and yesterday we basically got up and ran over to my parents before I changed Emily out of her new PJ's from Santa.  Here is Emily helping Uncle Dave open one of his presents ...

Dave got this awesome plate from my cousin Marlene and his godson Dylan that says "Grilled to Perfection on David's Grill"  and he loved it!  Dave likes to grill out at his lake house and often has his friends over, so he will use this a lot.

After opening the gift Dave surprised Emily by dumping out the box of "popcorn" on her.  It was hilarious, and boy was she surprised.

This was Emily after the surprise.

Emily loved it so much we decided to do it again!

And again, can you see how excited and ready she is by the third time!

Of course Emily wanted to do it several more times, but we had to clean up so Uncle Dave could pack up his stuff.  Uncle Dave is a pretty fun guy!