christmas 2014

We had a small Christmas tree this year. Iris loved it, but her favorite thing to do was to throw the ornaments, so we had to keep her away from them.

Iris is almost as tall as our tree. 

Notice the Christmas bunny. 

Evan's parents came in for Christmas and in true Morgan fashion, they helped on home renovation. Our laundry room now has drywall and paint and a counter for folding and some shelving. I hope this helps with our laundry problem a bit -- it is a beautiful counter for folding clothes.

Christmas brought lots of snow, finally. Iris got to play in the snow, but she didn't love the cold. And she thought the slush on her boots was yucky.

On Christmas Eve, we took Iris to the children's service at the Unitarian church. She loved the spectacle, and especially loved the tree. She managed to stay tolerably quiet through most of the service, but at the end, finally, she had to go outside and run around.

Evan's dad brought his copy of The Night Before Christmas to read to Iris. It was fun to have Iris share in that tradition, although she wasn't ready to sit still through the whole thing.

Papa reads to Iris.

Reading on Christmas Eve and giving me a fake smile. 

We started to open presents on Christmas Eve but Iris was too tired to hack it so the adults opened their presents after bed time and Iris finished opening her presents on Christmas day. This year she was more interactive with actually opening her presents, though at one point she had to stop and check on her bunny light.

Opening presents with Daddy. 

The bunny night light. 

Evan's gifts had a hiking theme to them this year, in hopes that we would get outdoors much, much more in 2015. Iris took to the hiking backpack very well demonstrating the idea with her stuffed animals first. 

Christmas afternoon walk