Christmas!!

Christmas is always fun around the Rice household. It is actually a week long event most years. This year we started our Christmas festivities on the Saturday before Christmas, when we went to celebrate with Nick's family at his mom's house.

After that, the festivities did not resume until Christmas Eve when we went to Mamaw Judy's house. Here we took a "Happy Birthday Jesus" cake and sang happy birthday before cutting and eating the cake. We also sang happy birthday again Christmas morning when the kids woke up.
Here is my masterpiece of a cake...

(No, the icing isn't lumpy, it is chocolate chip icing)

Christmas continued on Christmas day where we celebrated at home, Mamaw Sharlett's, Nick's dad's house, and my mom's house. What a full, but exciting, day!

This year Santa brought the kiddos Big Wheels. Gracie got a pink and purple "princess" big wheel and Evan got the traditional yellow and red one. They loved them! Poor Gracie's pedal kept falling off (Santa didn't bring one of the pieces that holds the pedal on, so we will be calling the manufacturer to get one) and poor Evan's seat wasn't on right because we didn't know which position it would best fit him. But even with the mishaps, they loved them and wanted to test drive them around the living room. So, of course we let them!

Santa also brought Evan (and Nick) a Wii! Evan was so excited, although he wanted to know where the Lego Batman (Wii game) was because it wasn't under the tree and he had asked for it. He was excited to be reminded that he had already received the game as a Christmas present from MiMi last Saturday. Here they are with their new pride-n-joy...

So, that's Christmas in a nutshell for the Rice's!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas this year!