Kelsey's First Christmas

Well, I have really been wanting to get out some sort of Christmas card or letter for the past few years. Especially this year with the new baby and all. But since it is January now, and that hasn't happened, this year this blog post will have to be enough. Maybe next year =)... So here are some pictures of Kelsey's first Christmas activities. She definitely loved getting to see new things and have lots of people around. She would try so hard to stay awake because she didn't want to miss out on anything! Here are a couple pictures from her first time meeting Santa:
And here she is in her "Christmas best" (what can I say? I'm a casual kind of girl!) before church on the Sunday before Christmas:

Here are a couple pictures of her modeling her first Christmas present she got to open on Christmas eve (PJs of course!) You can't really see in the first picture, but there are reindeer on her feet and she was totally loving playing with them!
In these pictures taken later you can see at least one of the reindeer, and see how much she liked to grab them!














And here she is on Christmas morning and afternoon opening presents. These series of pictures really made me laugh- I had trouble picking only a few to post!
Yes, she really was as excited as she looks in that picture! And then of course the first place every present goes...in her mouth!
"My cow is awesome!" (says Kelsey, of course!)
"Oh my goodness...what do I do with a present this big?!?" (says Kelsey again)

And of course after all of the presents and excitement of the day, her most favorite toy of all... the ribbon from one of her presents! =)





She also got to go see the city of Bethlehem (she loved the animals!), a reenactment of the Christmas story by a church near where we live. It is pretty cool!

And she got to go to Christmas in the Park in downtown San Jose- a whole strip of land decorated with Christmas trees and moving displays and such. She really seemed entertained by them!

I don't know if you can tell, but behind her right shoulder is a merry-go-round of penguins and she was really loving watching them go around!

So as you can see it was a packed first holiday season for our little girl! She is so much fun and we are so grateful to have been able to share this time of year with her for her first time. I was going to take a couple pictures of her celebrating her first New Year too...but after all the Christmas excitement, she wasn't even awake to see it..she had zonked out on her daddy on the couch. Oh well, maybe next year =)!