A Pollock Christmas

Christmas this year was wonderful! We stayed in Cache Valley and had a simple holiday. Christmas Eve we ate Rico Chicken Tamales (bought them frozen at Smith's. Like I said, we went SIMPLE, but delicious!) and fruit kabobs. The girls got pajamas from Santa's doorbell-ditching elves and got to open one present each. Abby's one present was a bigger stuffed tiger to go along with her favorite tiger friend, Richard Parker. Abby opened up the present (from Leah, which we found at a thrift store for $.25) and immediately ran to Richard Parker and made the two tigers look each other in the eyes. We named the new addition to the family Mama Parker.


All night, Leah was SO excited it was finally Christmas and Abby was photographically uncooperative. Here is Leah trying to get her sister to sit up and look at the camera for two seconds!

Abby with Richard and Mama Parker.

I told you, Leah was ON something Christmas Eve. We got a bunch of crazy pictures of her getting ready for bed and going through the whole Christmas Eve routine. Christmas with kids is so much fun!!

Abby, showing off her stocking.

The untouched Santa haul. The girls got a newly remodeled dollhouse which Santa transformed from $3 yard sale find to a home fit for a Fisher Price Loving Family. However, Santa's elves got tired of staying up all night making furniture and such so one room was completely empty and the kitchen table was lacking in chairs. But Leah and Abby were excited about the house anyway. And even MORE excited at the prospect of getting to MAKE furniture with their dad!

Leah and the Loving Family Mansion

The haul. From Santa, the girls received: poptarts, Lucky Charms, Sour Patch Kids, marshmallow ropes, chocolate covered marshmallow santas, wooden puzzles, a half-dozen books, Winnie the Pooh fuzzy posters, coloring books, tights, MORE pajamas, animal crackers, a giant bag of pretzels and more! Oh, and Leah got three huge containers of parmesan cheese, one of her favorite foods. Simple. Just the way we like it!

P.S. That blue thing around Abby's waist is her Swiper tail (like Swiper the fox on Dora). It's a fuzzy blue scarf that she puts on almost every day. Lately it's been a puppy tail or a pikachu tail but it's funny to me how much she likes wearing it and staying in character. Fun kid!