Conroe Christmas

Once we made it back to Texas, we celebrated Christmas with Darren's parents. (Sadly this year was the first where we did not have Christmas with D's sister and family..bound to happen sometime...we missed them!)

Here is Ava looking at the stuff Santa brought for her (we told her he was coming twice this year!!)

Here is the awesome stuff Santa brought for her (the dress up rack was custom built in a little place I call Santa's workshop by an elf named Rudy. Wink wink!)

 Ava showing off all her costumes (the girl LOVES dress up)...Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine & Tinkerbell...

 And Captain Hook, Cinderella, a yellow ballerina dress & Cinderella's wedding dress.

 After lunch we opened the other presents (you know the ones from Granny & Pops & me & Darren).

 Ava even picked out a special gift for Darren...a green Zhu zhu pet hamster named Sergeant Serge (she has one too so now they can play together).  Darren looks happy to have gotten one!

 Darren & I exchanged presents for the first time in about 4 years.  It was super fun and as you can see from the ridiculous photo below, I was super excited.  One of the things I got was this awesome camera bag/purse from Jo's Totes that I had my eye on. For anyone who has a big SLR camera, these bags rock...they look like purses and are super cute!

 And Rudy finally gave Jeanie her last present, a Kindle which came in the sleeve I made for it.  They had already done their Christmas so Jeanie was very surprised to get another gift and was so happy. She even got teary eyed..too cute!  Then she came over and gave Rudy a big hug and sat on his lap which was kind of funny....I have decided to call this photo "Happiness is a Kindle."  Because really, if you got a Kindle you would be happy too (assuming you like to read).  They rock!