Merry Christmas

Here are some pictures and videos from Christmas in Chicago:

Christmas Eve outfits:

 Sarah was not a fan of Santa at all:

 Emma liked him though!

 Emma and Sarah wrote a note to Santa (it is kind of hard to read).  But Santa wrote back:

 Opening the presents Santa left on Christmas morning:

 Christmas day outfits:

The kids did a show (a very long, repetitive show that took 4 days of practice) on Christmas Day.  It was fun, but feel free to skip pieces of the performances, as they are long.  First up, Sarah's dance to the song "China" on the keyboard:

Next up, Emma's dance to "Sea Rock":

And finally, all the cousins (Alexis, Dave, Emma, Sarah and Kiley) dancing together to "Dance":

Holiday Fun Starts

Our marathon of holiday fun has begun.  On Friday, Sarah got to have a lunch with Frosty:

Santa came to our house early this morning.  And the girls were up bright and early to check out presents:

With the pile of presents:

This year, we got the girls a doll house for their actual dolls, rather than Barbie sized ones.  Brian and I put it together the night before, here was part of the assembly process:

The girls seemed to be fans:

They immediately started to play with it and that lasted all morning:

A little later in the day we had apple cider and gingerbread house building:

 Emma got a pink princess castle:

 Sarah got a blue Frozen castle:

 And then the whole family built a tiny village: