Monday, December 27, 2010

A big, long Christmas post

We had a nice, quiet Christmas this year. It was a little weird to not go home to Texas at all, but we still had fun. Christmas Eve we decided to head up to a 'Christmas Village' in Pennsylvania. It was about a two and a half hour drive, but it was supposed to be super amazing. Marc had brought home a brochure about it, and it had won an award as being the 'biggest display of Christmas lights in the world'.

Here's T before we left:






Waiting in line:


How T felt about it...


She was much happier once we released her from the stroller. She loved all the lights, and especially all the snowmen. She was not pleased to see the giant Santa.




They did have a ton of lights and cool displays, but it didn't quite live up to our expectations. Definitely not worth that long of a drive, but we still had fun. Now we know not to do it next year ;). We had planned to eat Christmas Eve dinner there, at the Country Kitchen the brochure claimed they had, but that turned out not to exist. We ended up eating gas station food on the way home instead. Very festive ;).

T was pretty excited to see the tree when she got up Christmas morning.



She totally knew what to do right away

Christmas1 from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.



She ditched half way through that present because she realized she hadn't had her milk yet. You do NOT want to mess with this girl before she gets her morning milk fix (notice her unzipped pajamas? She refuses to have them zipped all the way up, as soon as we put them on at night she has to half unzip them)



Once she got some milk in her she was a little more enthusiastic

Christmas2 from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.



Christmas3 from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.



Unfortunately, after she opened her baby and stroller, she lost all interest in the other gifts and just took off, pushing them around the house. We were eventually able to lure her back to the tree to open the rest of her stuff



Christmas day we had some friends over for dinner. Teresa was a big help setting the table:





Until she decided she was needed elsewhere...







We hope you all had as Merry of a Christmas as we did!

6 comments:

Melissa said...

How adorable! Why does she seem like a 3 yr. old and my little guy is still very much a baby? Love her skirt Hannah has the same one.

pauline said...

Hi there ... such great pics! It seemed like a nice place to visit, with lots of fun displays... T is looking intently... She is so cute in her little red top, and then her little red skirt with black... quite stunning :) We love the videos of her opening presents, and then taking a milk break ... heeheehee! She loves her doll and stroller of course ... the best gift ever! Aww, poor little thing stuck in the stroller! I'd cry too! Her curls are super cute... look like yours when you were little Tara. Thanks for sharing with us... love, Mom (Dad too) xox

fiona said...

That's hilarious that she unzips halfway! Cute girl :) I like in the doll-opening video how she knocks over the all-important sippy full of milk and makes sure to set it back up right. Her outfit is adorable, I love the little red skirt! I'm glad y'all had a lovely Christmas, and I think you should make gas station food a new Christmas Eve tradition! Who needs tamales?? ;)

Keli said...

So cute. My little girl got a stroller and the same baby. She loves pushing her around too.

Aislinn said...

Oh my goodness, she's getting so big! I agree with Melissa...she seems so grown up and Ciaran is still just a BABY! Must be that boys mature more slowly, LOL. I love, love, love her ponytail at Christmas dinner! Oh so cute! She has so much personality...love the half zipped jammies, LOL!

Rob and Erin Smith said...

What fun!!! I love that she knew exactly what to do with the presents! She is so cute!!! I love her pigtails! She's obviously going to be the best big sister Ever! We loved all the videos and all of us wanted to see more, esp Colin, "IT'S TEESA!!!" She is seriously too Cute in her read shirt and jeans with those awesome curls. She's definitely your daughter!