Christmas in Orange (the city not the color)

It's so fun when you can prolong Christmas for a whole week :) This past weekend we headed to Orange to celebrate and early Christmas with Mimi, Papa, Aunt Can, Uncle Stevie and, of course, my precious niece, Mia. We drove in late Friday night so that Saturday morning we could pretend it was the "big day". The girls woke up to lots and lots of goodies stacked under, around, next to and in front of the tree! Can you guess what their big gift was this year??
That's right, tricycles! And they looved them!


The also received great Dora tailgating chairs. Uncle Steven is already teaching little Mia the art of the tailgate (as he is an avid Aggie tailgater) and was happy to show Gaby the ropes. Now all they need are a couple of beers...
Speaking of Uncle Stevie, Gaby had a very weird affinity for her Uncle this weekend. We're not sure what it was- maybe the bald head, maybe the facial hair, maybe his big round cheeks- who knows but she sure was lovin on him alot. It was so cute!
Mimi has already learned that when she's at the store she needs to go ahead and buy two of EVERYTHING! And good thing she did because our little sweeties still have not mastered the fine art of sharing yet and it was so nice to say "this one is Mia's and this one is Gaby's". We had the yummiest of non-traditional holiday meals- homemade fried chicken & mashed potatoes. Soooo goood!! And the girls also decorated some Christmas cookies....
They managed to decorate them with what they didn't eat themselves. Don't they look yummy??
We had lots of fun this year with the girls and their presents although I still think they didn't fully get the concept yet. Next year should be a doozy!

Aren't they the cutest??