The Beck Family: Merry Christmas!!

We had a wonderful Christmas and hope your family did too! It is so amazing how much more I got into the Christmas Spirit this year with Maddie. Not that I don't love Christmas every year, but this year was very special. It is so much more fun when you are buying things that you know will put a great big smile on your daughter's face!! We started some of our own family Christmas traditions this year. We spent Christmas morning together as a family just Josh, Maddie, and I. We had special Santa Cakes for breakfast. I found a picture of these in a magazine about 7 years ago and told Josh that when we had kiddos we were going to have Santa Cakes Christmas morning and I finally got to make them!! After breakfast, Josh read the Christmas story from the Bible to us and then we opened our presents together.

Santa was very good to Maddie and brought her a little shopping cart, a shape game, a tea set, and of course her stocking was filled with new hair bows!! Mommy and Daddy got her a singing purse, an alphabet toy that goes on the refrigerator, and some clothes. Maddie wasn't really into opening gifts, especially after she found her shopping cart. She just wanted to play with all of her new toys! She is so cute with her shopping cart she can't walk on her own yet, but she was all over with the help of her shopping cart. Our house still looks like there has been a small explosion of toys. We haven't been home long enough to find new places for everything yet and it is driving me nuts!! Hopefully we can get things back together with the long New Year's weekend!