On the 11th Day of Christmas...

You got a bike!!!

Dear Abigail,

I know, I know, it's not another day, but we had 2 big events on Christmas day, so I thought I'd separate them out. After we left Mammaws, you and Daddy took a much needed nap while Mommy and Mimi got food ready for that afternoon/evening at Mimi's house. Soon enough you were awake and the food was smellin' good! Although, I will add that Mimi's oven went out when we had a couple more things to cook. Sausage balls should not have taken 1 1/2 to cook! Not surprising at all, we had plenty of food even with the oven breaking!

We did things a little different this year, since everyone had a little different schedule. We decided to do all appetizers and everyone could eat at their own will rather making everyone eat at 5:30 even if you just ate at 1! It worked out perfectly, other than we ate and ate and ate all night long! And you missy, you kept grabbing the "CHOC-O-LATE!" that Chris' girlfriend made and brought! I had to yell at you on Christmas, so please forgive me :)

First things first when everyone arrived - take pictures!

Mimi and Pic-pic and ALL the grandkids!

And you always trying to pet your baby sister!
Here's our family of four - just perfect, huh!
And Mammaw and Pawpaw and the GREAT grandkids!

Soon enough we passed out the monsoon amount of presents to everyone and while we TRIED to get you kiddos to open one at a time (so we could see what you got, take pictures, etc.) there was no chance of that actually happening! You tore into your presents and got all kinds of things including stuff to do Mommy's hair, rain boots and a rain jacket, sparkly pink Toms (all the girls got them and Mommy so bad wanted a picture of all your feet in them, but who was I foolin - there were presents to open!).

So lots and lots of presents, but then, to top it off, drum roll please....

A new bike!!!!!! And it was a pinkalicious bike!!! even with a spot for your baby to ride! You loved it and immediately insisted on riding it, regardless that it was dark AND cold!

And Clara Lee got one too!!! Like I said, you HAD to ride it outside, so since "It's Christmas Niki" we let you!

Balloons and all. You cried when we had to go in but we promised you could ride it the next morning. And you did. And want to ride it all the time but it's been really cold and even rainy a lot. But the day is coming (and PS Mommy got a bike, too, so we can ride together!!!).

Kateland got an XBox kinects thingy so we set it up and every one did a little dancing. You girls were awesome, and hilarious, and had a ball dancing with Emily. Your BFF stopped by for a little bit and soon enough it was time to go to bed. Mimi did not have a problem putting you to bed because she was right behind you!! It was a very fun and exciting Christmas Day. You are truly blessed to have such a great family (especially cousins!) who loves to get together and play, play, play (and eat a little, too!!!).

Merry Christmas baby girl! One more day and we wrap up our 12 days of Christmas!