Friday, December 26, 2008

Ayla's First Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year with our sweet baby girl! She was so excited! For only being 8 months old, she sure shocked us with how into it all she was. She seemed to sense our excitement & got right into the spirit with us!

On Christmas Eve we went up to Grammy & Grandpa's for dinner...

Ayla wrote her note to Santa (with the help of Mommy) and left it out on the deck for the elves to get on Christmas Eve...

That's her signature under her name :)

They took the note to the North Pole & left a little stuffed Santa for Ayla. She, of course, had to immediately kiss it, which is what she does when she makes a new friend :)

We opened up family gifts...

and lit the menorah for the 4th night of Hanukkah...

Christmas morning we woke bright & early & saw that Santa had come!!!

Ayla got into her pretties...

Look at me trying to crawl!

She opened up LOTS of books- her favorite!
There were also some pretty cool blocks, stackers, music CD's and other cool toys...

There was also a BIG HUGE present that Santa left...

She was pretty excited about that box!

And I guess what was IN the box was pretty special too!

We hope everyone's holiday was filled with as much love & laughter as ours was!
Merry Christmas!

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