Christmas Day at the Hacienda...and family

  Every year as a child my Mom would make cinnamon rolls for Cmas morning breakfast. I continue this tradition with Kaya and today was no different. As soon as we did gifts, the rolls were in the oven and going .
  Kaya fought hard going to sleep last night. She was exhausted and cranky and finally gave it up about 11:30 and went to bed! I dozed off only to be woke up at almost 1 to help finish up some odd n ends and make sure the gifts were all under the tree. Needless to say when Kaya bounded out of bed at 6:30 I was already up ..but Daddy was a bit slower moving lol
  Her face was PRICELESS when she saw the tree, the gifts and her stocking. The fact that Santa remembered treats for her tortoise and for her dog ;) was an added bonus. She opened her gift from "santa" first...it was her purple wooden acoustic guitar she had asked for. Talk about excited and then lecturing everyone to not break it, not twist the dials at the top etc. Next came her gift shipped from Uncle J...her new Furby Boom. Oh my! Kaya about spazzed out when she opened it! She was in amazement that her uncle knew what she wanted ;). Kaya got gifts she had never thought of..new Monster High headphones for use with the ipad etc, monster high shower set for her dolls,and of course her Flappies or whatever it's called hat lol She's a very blessed little girl!
  After all the gift opening we had cinnamon rolls and relaxed for a bit. Mixed up some biscuits and got them in a pan ready to go to my Uncles.
   After dropping my Dad off we headed to my Mom's family for a huge meal and get together. We originally had planned no gifts but my Uncle being my Uncle lol decided to give a 20 dollar bill to each one of his great nieces and nephews! They were a happy bunch. My cousin also got each kid a stocking filled with oranges (;) and little things. Kaya was on cloud nine.
   The meal was awesome...turkey,ham, duck and all the fixings as well as dessert. We were all miserable.
   This year my cousin set up a table for the kids to do crafts and they had a ball!! They each made a Cmas tree complete with ornaments etc. It was nice to see all the kids having fun together.
   Headed home later in the afternoon, had to go through water to get home thanks to all the rain and the river/creeks coming back out!!! and decided to spend the rest of the day relaxing and letting Kaya play with her new toys. Kaya got a surprise visit from her aunt and two cousins to drop off her gifts from her other grandpa and some play time.
  Cmas day went great and everyone had a blast! Thankful for family time, for all the smiles and giggles from Kaya, and for an evening of relaxing together. I think the pics below speak well of our last two days :)

Cmas eve

Cmas Morning

Cmas afternoon