Christmas/New Year's with the Woolley's

We celebrated Christmas with the Woolley's on New Year's Eve.  We opened presents after ice skating and before dinner. We had a wonderful time...and lots of presents to open (the picture of the tree is after we took the presents for the Ely family out to the car to bring back to Ohio).  Here are some pictures from when we were opening gifts.

Uncle Josh (aka the cool cat in his hoodie)

Hannah loved her new umbrella from Aunt D & Uncle Josh. 
It even meows when you push a button on it!

Two of the "hit" presents -- a picture book that I made called "Grandma's Girls" for Sally and a new crock pot for Danila!

Abby (& Gracie) both got bones to open.

Lauren enjoyed opening her presents.

Lauren also enjoyed trying to get at Hannah's new "laptop" from Grandma & Grandpa Woolley

(Lauren LOVES all things electronic!)

After we finished opening presents, we were treated to a wonderful dinner prepared by Danila.  (beef bourguignon to be exact)  Danila also made a delicious chocolate cake with a peppermint ice cream filling.  My job was to decorate the cake (a cool whip frosting with a hint of peppermint in it).  Let me just say that one of my favorite parts of Christmas is all of the peppermint treats -- so I was so excited to try the cake.  Jon was so excited about the dessert that he took a picture of it.  And so, I'm posting a picture of it!  One of the more interesting aspects of dinner was the fact that we let Hannah drink her water from a wine glass...which she enjoyed....at least until she bit the wine glass and it broke in her mouth.  The picture below was taken about 30 seconds before that happened.  I managed to swipe all of the glass out of her mouth and we rebuilt the few pieces in the glass to make sure we'd gotten it all.  Danila told us that she had visions of another urgent care trip, but she was impressed with our cat-like parental reflexes when everything happened!  Fortunately, Hannah was just scared, but didn't even get cut...and we went back to the plastic cups.

After dinner, we got the girls ready for bed and I agreed to let them fall asleep at Josh & Danila's so we could hang out and play games to celebrate the new year.  (I probably more readily agreed to that after going back to the hotel at 8pm last night while Jon played Kinect with everyone else and he left his I-Pad behind to charge when he took me to the hotel, so I ended up just going to bed with the girls because I couldn't even watch TV b/c Hannah wouldn't sleep with the lights on.)  Hannah loved her umbrella so much that she insisted Aunt D hold it while she got her bedtime stories (new books that she got for Christmas) read to her!