Emily's 1st Christmas

I know I'm a little late on this post. I want to post more - just so I can look back for myself on these memories, but it's sooo hard to find the time!! Anyways, we had a great 1st Christmas for our sweet girl. I know she didn't know what was going on, but I sure had fun pretending like she did! ha!

Lisa and I are wanting to start all kinds of traditions with our girls. Making Christmas cookies, putting out reindeer food, Elf on a Shelf, etc. etc. We're just sooo excited that they are so close in age and can share in the Christmas excitement together. Lisa and I always had the best Christmases. Mom and Dad always made them so magical for us. I hope I can do the same for my Emily.

Here are a few pics from the holiday season...

Emily's 1st Shopping Trip to Belk!

Emily visited Mimi for the 1st time, while I put out her Christmas decorations.

Emily had some special visitors - Her friend, Ethan, and his mommy, Lesha

Emily's 1st Snow

Emily had SEVERAL Christmas outfits. This is outfit # 1. It was WAY too big, but we made it work. ;)

Outfit # 2. This was my Christmas gown when I was little.

Outfit # 3. Christmas stocking onesie I bought off Etsy. Notice my poor baby's legs. She got her 2 month shots on the 23rd. =(

Outfit # 4. Santa Hat onesie her Granny's friend made her.

Christmas Cookie Time!!

Our family
(Thanks for the Adorable Christmas socks Miss Mandi!

Always Remember Mimi - Especially at Christmas

Pawpaw and his Girls

Abby and Emily's 1st Christmas Together

Santa Came!

Outfit # 5. A gift from Aunt Lisa.

Emmie's Christmas Tree

Elf is Watching - Need a name for him, but will have to wait until Em can name him. =)

Em's other Christmas tree

The Hobson Cousins...just LOVE this pic!

I-chatting with Aunt Jean and Cousin, Jacob in Colorado! That's a toy Santa Aunt Jean has playing for Abby...ha!

Downtime for Mommy and Emily After a Great 1st Christmas - We fell asleep together on the couch soon after this pic was taken. =)

Em wasn't too into opening presents this year.

Abby, on the other hand, loved opening presents!

A gift from Abby and Emily to their Pawpaw!

Emily and Abby each got to open 1 present on Christmas Eve (just like Lisa and I use to get to do). This was from me to both girls....

It's a book explaining where Mimi lives. I put her picture inside with a little note from her to the girls.

We went to Harry The Potter to make Emily a Christmas ornament. I wanted to get her a really cute "Baby's 1st Christmas" ornament, but could never find the Perfect one, so I thought this would be cute - we got her hand print on it. Lisa and I thought it might be fun to let the girls make an ornament with their hand print each year. All in all, I ended up with about 5 Baby's 1st Christmas ornaments for her!! ha!!