The girls loved decorating the tree. Kaitlyn mainly looked through the ornaments, Mady did a good job of putting them on the lower part of the tree. After the girls went to bed, Jacob and I redistributed the ornaments and made sure all of the fragile ones were up near the top.
We made lots of Christmas cut-out cookies this year. I have an awesome recipe and two years in a row now they've turned out just about as good as Jacob's mom's. Mady loved helping cut out the cookies and had an even better time decorating them. Most of them were loaded with sprinkles, Jacob and I were in charge of putting on the icing.
This year we decided to visit the Grand Floridian at Walt Disney World. They have an amazing gingerbread house and it's neat to see all of the holiday decorations. My plan was to get a picture of the girls in front of the big tree in the lobby or in front of the gingerbread house and use it as our Christmas card photo, but Kaitlyn did not want to participate. This was the only picture of the girls together that day.
We traveled to St. Augustine right before Christmas to see the lights. We rode around town in the red choo-choo and saw the lights in 3D. We also managed to eat at our favorite restaurant while we were in town for the night. Mady loved the lights, but KK grew restless about halfway through.
The day we have been waiting for has finally arrived, Christmas morning! The only thing Mady really wanted was a swing set from Santa. Kaitlyn didn't get much, but the one thing she did get, she loved- a doll house.
After opening all the presents we headed over to Jacob's parent's house where all the cousins were waiting for us. Here is a picture of Mady with her only girl cousin Jillian. There's also a picture of all TEN grandkids. Mady, KK, and Jillian are the only girls!
After Christmas my friend Renee and I decided to take Mady and Emily to see the Rockettes at the UCF Arena. Tickets were buy one, get one free and both girls loved seeing the Rockettes in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. They paid attention the whole time and loved the show.
We had a NYE party at our house and then the following day we took the girls to Monkey Joes for the first time. Up until now Mady has never liked bounce houses, or "blow ups" as she calls them. Now she loves them. We were excited to go since it was rainy out and wanted something to do. KK loved jumping and bouncing and going down the smaller slides!
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