Then there were plenty of presents to open. Elsie did a very good job at opening her own gifts. The first one she got was a very noisy one and she was not sure what to do with it. So she moved it around and around until Will started to pull the paper off. Then seeing a chance to eat something yummy she went for the paper and pulled.
The morning progressed with Elsie trying to eat just about every present and the paper that came off of them too. Luckily Will was too quick for her and took all the paper she tore off before it ended up in her mouth. All in all it was a wonderful morning of gift receiving.
The rest of Christmas was also good but we do not have any photos to document it. So you are just going to have to read on if you want to know what we did. After lazing around all morning and eating a light lunch we went to Independence Missouri. There is a LDS visitors center there and we wanted to go and see the nativity sets they had on display. It turns out that the collection belongs to one woman. She had done a lot of traveling and as she did so she collected nativity sets. She has around 500 of them! But we only saw about half of them. They were very beautiful and very diverse...they were made from all sorts of things glass, painted rocks, metal, straw and bees wax to name a few. After looking at the nativities we drove back towards home and went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. We spent the rest of the evening relaxing at home. I surprised myself that I was not upset about canceling the big Christmas dinner. We decided to have the ham on New Years day instead.
3 comments:
Who's coming to your New Year's dinner? And why I didn't get an invitation... =)
The pictures of Elsie are adorable! I have to say we're slackers and didn't really bother with too many presents for our little guy. But it looks like Elsie had a blast!
Looks like a fun Christmas! I am looking forward to seeing you guys soon! Happy New Year!
That's right Elsie, materialism is the secret to happiness.
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