Our Very Merry Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas here at the Kahler house!!  We of course got some presents, but we also got some fantastic time as a family keeping up our traditions and enjoying every minute of it!!

On Friday night we took the girls to look at Christmas lights.  It was fun going back to neighborhoods that Matt and I had been to as kids with our families to look at lights.  We went to 2 neighborhoods that had really done up streets and then just drove around some too.  Tatum and Camdyn both had a great time.  They really loved the lights and there eyes were almost as bright as the lights were :).

Excited to go see lights!!

Saturday morning (Christmas Eve Day) we got up and got right into making our cookies for Santa.  This is the second year that we have made the recipe we did and they turned out great.  So very yummy!!  It was really fun that the 4 of us made the cookies and decorated them together.  Then we just curled up on the couch and watched a few Christmas movies as a family.  We had Matt's side of the family over for Christmas Eve dinner.  It was a nice relaxed evening.  The girls got to open their Christmas jammies that night and they both looked adorable of course!!  We put the food out for Santa and the Reindeer.  {Little story: we were at the grocery store getting everything we needed for our Christmas meals and I asked Tatum what Reindeer eat, she said she didn't know.  I told her I thought they ate carrots so we put some of those in our cart.  Then after a bit of shopping Tatum said, "Mommy, I think that Reindeers really like cheese".  I said oh you are right it is their favorite, so when the Reindeers came to our house they got carrots and cheese :)}.  Then we headed upstairs to get all tucked in tight so that Santa could bring some Christmas Magic!!

Time to bake cookies!!

Tatum is so awesome at cracking eggs!!

Camdyn loves baking

Tatum and Daddy rolling out the dough

Santa's cookie

Camdyn going for a stroll

Cute girl

So ready for Christmas!!

All ready for Santa

Christmas jammies!!

Our girls both slept until about 8:15 Christmas morning.  But as soon as they were up Tatum started talking about how she heard Santa in the night.  She said that she heard his Jingle Bells while he was bringing her presents.  So cute!!  Both our girls were adorable opening all of their gifts.  Camdyn had a blast on her first Christmas.  I have never heard Cam do so much squeeling.  She was honestly just so super excited about everything!! 

Reading the note Santa left the girls

Camdyn loving her stocking gifts

Tatum and her stocking

The girls and their gifts from Santa

Camdyn on her first Christmas

Daddy and his gifts from the girls

Presents everywhere!!

We spent the afternoon at Matt's parents, opening more gifts and having fun.  And then we headed over to Matt's Aunt and Uncles house for Christmas dinner and so much fun!! Instead of doing gifts for everyone we do a gift card exchange.  Every person brings a gift card and we each get to pick one at a time.  This year it was oldest to youngest.  Then after every person has one the fun begins.  We have to roll dice and if we land on a 6 we can steal someone else's card.  It is five minutes of laughter and craziness and it is so much fun.  After the gift card exchange we play minute to win it.  To us this is probably one of the best parts of our Christmas traditions.  It is so awesome to see what games we will have to play and how silly we can get.  More non-stop laughter!!  This year we played so many histerical games, even Tatum got to play some of them.  Matt and Andrew were the champions of this years Minute to Win it Madness!!

Cutest Santa Butt

Adorable

Playing with Auntie Emma

Tatum and Mommy

Marshmellow blow gun for minute to win it

{There are of course a whole lot of minute to win it pictures but we will keep those in the family :)}

We truly are so incredibly lucky and blessed with all that we have and we could not of asked for a better Christmas!!!!