Life with the Lynchs: Christmas 2010

Christmas was all I had hoped for and much more! Early in the week the weatherman started talking about the possibility of snow Christmas Eve night and Christmas Day. I tried not to get my hopes up too much as I didn’t want to get disappointed, but I REALLY wanted a white Christmas. Growing up in middle Georgia provided many wonderful things but a white Christmas wasn’t one of them. So, I was ecstatic when I woke up to a winter wonderland in our backyard. Matt put it best when he said we were having a Norman Rockwell Christmas. It was fabulous!

Ella Catherine really got into all the Christmas activities this year. She was sooo excited for Christmas morning. Carter just fed off of Ella Catherine’s excitement. He is still too young to really understand. However, he loves his sister and is happy when she is happy.

Carter was the first to wake up. Before I could get to him, he had woken Ella Catherine up. She usually can sleep through his cries but I think she was too excited about Santa to sleep. It was a bit early, 5:15am to be exact, so I took them back to our room and we laid in bed and watched a Christmas movie. Growing up we had a rule that we couldn’t wake up our parents or grandparents until 6am. As a kid that rule used to kill me, as a grown-up I can better appreciate the rule. So, I have enforced that rule in our house. Lucky for us Ella Catherine was into the Christmas movie and by the time it was over it was almost 6:45am. I loved having that snuggle time with all of us in the bed. As to how the rest of the morning went, I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

Santa was here! (the Before picture)

White Christmas!!!

Once she was given the green light to open gifts, Ella Catherine jumped right in without hesitation

CANDYLAND!!!

A new tutu

Carter had no problems finding the power button on the four wheeler but we do need to work on steering. :)

Carter in his new bean bag chair opening gifts

He finally started getting the hang of opening gifts

SO EXCITED he got some MEGA blocks.

The After picture

Seeing these two playing in the jeep together made my heart smile and then I got a flash of these two as teenagers driving around together and it gave me a heart attack.

Matt putting together the baby crib that mimi sent

The finished product

Grams and Grandpa came to visit the day after Christmas. Matt decided to shovel off our steep driveway and so the kids and I decided to go play in the snow.