Christmas Morning 2007

Christmas morning... the girls were so EXCITED! Of course Santa went overboard... the BIG present was the new kitchen. We could barely tear them away from it to open their other gifts.

Ella opening the food that she can "cut".
Oh, how she loves cutting the food and cooking it up for us.

Katie was having fun making everyone "pizza".

Pizza's ready!
The "chefs" hard at work/play!



Ever since we saw The Nutcracker on TV, the girls have been obsessed with ballet. Aunt Margie gave the girls a ballerina dress for their birthday and now they have ballet slippers to complete the outfit. Above is Ella putting on her slippers...
Daddy is helping Katie get her slippers on... she's telling me how she can do ballet now, just like the Nutcracker.Another big hit was the miniature princess dolls... Katie is showing off her Sleeping Beauty doll (above) and Ella (below) is excitedly waiting for me to get her Cinderella out of the box.

Ella deciding what dress to put on Cinderella...

Another gift the girls are loving is their new "band in a box"... Katie is playing the harmonica (the harmonica was such a big hit, Daddy had to run to the store and buy a second one!) and Ella is on the triangle. (Not pictured are mommy and daddy having a good time with the xylophone and the recorder. Seriously -- it's fun to play 'in-tru-ments, as Katie says.)The next "big" present is from Mimi...Eukalalis! Pink for Katie and blue for Ella.Sorry, Ella is drowned out by the sun shining through the window, but here's the "family" band... Move over Mandrell Sisters, here come "The Briggirls"!

This next gift requires a little explanation... every time we took Katie and Ella to see Santa, Katie would say she wanted a "pink robot with fuzzy eyebrows". Thinking she had seen some kind of something on tv, I kept asking her where she saw this 'pink robot'. She would come up with some wild story about how she saw it on the roof, peaking through the window and then it went and hid in the snow. Bill and I asked every parent we knew (and even a few we didn't!) if they had seen a 'pink robot' and I watched every tv show the girls watched and every commercial, trying to figure out what in the world she was talking about. I should have known that Santa would come through... he knew EXACTLY what Katie wanted. He made her this very special pink robot with pink fuzzy eyebrows... and, he made Ella one in BLUE, because we all know Ella's favorite color is blue.

Katie's pink robot with fuzzy eyebrows.

Ella's blue robot with blue fuzzy eyebrows.

I just HAD to include this one last photo... this is Ella literally falling asleep at the dinner table Christmas evening. She had such an exciting day and, of course, no nap and she was POOPED OUT!