Santa Came!

After our Iowa trip and a couple of days snuggled together at home, we were more than ready for Santa to make his visit. Lucy was excited, but not quite to the point of waking up too early, for which we were very thankful! I think we were all up before she was, but we were still up and at 'em by around 7:30am. Of course we had to check to make sure Santa ate his cookies...

The first thing she spotted was the Tonka dump truck, because it wasn't wrapped. Apparently she found this detail fascinating, because she keeps talking about how "Santa didn't wrap it." Daddy thought maybe it should be his, since there was no name on it. :)

We knew she would love the truck, and she wasted no time putting it to good use, unwrapping gifts and loading them in, and then dumping everything into one big pile. She got lots of great gifts from Santa, Mom and Dad, and Big Brother.

When Husband asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I said I just wanted someone to fill my stocking, since for years I'd been filling everyone else's (with Santa's help, of course). He asked Brandon to help, and through some overzealous shopping and a little miscommunication about who was doing what, I ended up with a stocking and a large bag full of all this...each item individually wrapped, I might add!

We had a busy morning but there was no time to rest, because it was time to go the Laabs Christmas! It was a day filled with laughter and love, as usual. 

We feel so grateful and blessed to have been together and surrounded by our extended families this holiday season. Merry Christmas!