Christmas Morning

Here is the pre-carnage picture of what Santa left at our house. As you can imagine, it got pretty messy pretty quick. I will never ever forget the looks on the girls' faces as they came running down the stairs. Julia started freaking out and jumping around and Audrey's eyes got really large as she uttered a simple, "woah." It was perfect and it made Santa feel a little less guilty for totally spoiling them rotten.
The kitchen was an instant hit. Seriously, have you ever seen a cuter kitchen. Word on the street is it took the elves three hours to put it together. Given the play time it has received already, well worth it.
And so we dig in.
Julia got a cowgirl outfit from Santa but was too embarrassed to model it for all of us, so Audrey stepped up and put it on. I am pretty sure it stayed on until she took a nap. Ride em' cowgirl. What's with the random hand in the picture? hmmmm...
Julia knew what she had asked Santa for. Every time she opened a present she would say, "This is great, but where's my Strawberry Shortcake house?" Luckily Santa eventually pulled through in the end.
Some of our favorite people the Hagbergs came and spent the morning with us. I'm so glad Kara got a hold of my camera to catch some awesome make-up-less, pink pajamaed shots of me.
The Bryan with his awesome Transformers t-shirt. I thought it was a great gift, if I do say so myself. But the hit of the day were the Nerf dart guns I gave Landon and Bryan. You can imagine the girls and I were hit with little suction darts all the day long. Never gets old, never gets old. I think the low point was when Audrey took one to the neck.
Oh my heck, what is wrong with us? I think it just looks like SO much because our family room isn't too big, right? Spoiled, spoiled, spoiled. Though I must say as Bryan went to bed tonight looking forward to heading to work tomorrow he mentioned that it really has been a perfect Christmas weekend and I couldn't agree more. We had so much fun, the girls have been in heaven all weekend and we got to spend it with many great friends. The only thing missing was all of the family that lives so far away.
Based on the color palate of this picture do you question that girls live in this house? Whew that's a lot of pink and so much stuff! Where am I going to put it all? And why is Audrey scaling the piano in this picture?