Alison, Laura and Alan
On Christmas Eve we went over to Carianne and Rodney's house to eat, make gingerbread houses, and have some holiday fun! These two kids LOVED making the houses, and eating the candy!
The completed village!
When we got home we read The Night Before Christmas, got our cookies (oreos) ready for Santa, and went to bed.
It was very hard to get to sleep because of all the anticipation. Gates was sooo concerned with the cookies and where Santa was, and was he bringing treats? She was very excited and pretty darn cute with the whole thing! Alan was pumped up too!
We got up and set the video camera up on a tripod, just in case she went into the living room first before our room. She ended up coming to us first, but we still have the morning on video. It was sooo magical and fun to see her excitement.
Mommy, a new cart!!!!! 
She was super excited about every single thing. Even the panties. She just kept saying, "Santa brought me princess panties"
Gates asked for treats. Lots and lots of treats. In her stocking, there was a lot of candy, and so she carried that around, until I hid it a couple of days ago... :)
What's this? Her favorite gift, from her favorite person. Uncle Tucker gave her this book full of starbursts!!
So, after Christmas morning at our house, the 4 of us packed up and went to Granbury. Were Gates had a very special gift and surprise from Grandear. See that door by the toilet? Grandear turned it into a special "little room". She filled it with all sorts of Gatesy's favorite things. 
The door opens..
and here we are.... Brandon says its like Anne Frank.
Here is another little pic of the three of us in the special little playroom.
Sunday we went over to MawMaw's house to visit and celebrate again! MawMaw gave Gates this awesome Dora tent, and even got in there and played tent!!! Sadly, I did not take many pics on Sunday...
