5:47am - "Mommy, Daddy, St. Nick came!"

Yes, that is what Brian and I woke up to this morning! Kelly has been waiting, and waiting for all the FUN Christmas and the holidays bring! She knew Molly was having a birthday first....and then we could get out all of our Christmas decorations, our tree, St. Nick would come, we could go visit Santa, make Christmas cookies, etc. Sure enough, St. Nick visited our house last night...right on schedule.

Sidenote.....Kelly watched a movie at school this morning about St. Nicholas and how he became a Saint and how generous and Christianlike he was. As I volunteer at her school on Mondays...I came in at the end of the movie....when her teacher started talking about it. The kids seemed to REALLY get the meaning of St. Nick after the cartoon type movie. Kelly said to me afterwords, "Mommy, I want to give presents and do nice things to people to make them smile like St. Nick does!"

Here is Miss Kelly.....wanting her picture taken before 6am!!!!!!

Kelly with her new Princess stick-on earrings and rings.

Kelly showing off all her stuff......St. Nick LOVES the Dollar Tree!

Molly woke up at a more reasonable time (7:15am)....and Kelly was pushing her to open up her filled stocking of things.....Molly was excited (as you can see on her face)...but big sister Kelly took the stuff off the window faster than Molly could even blink!

Kelly helping Molly open her stocking.

Molly holding her Elmo fizzy bath tablets!

Molly thinks St. Nick is fun too!