Santa brought Raquel barbies, barbies and more barbies. I think she ended up with almost 20, good thing Santa was smart and got them cheap on ebay. Natalya got lots of fisher price little people, a plane, carriage, castle and more. The girls had fun playing all day with their new toys, we talked with Grandma and Papa on Skype and had a yummy Christmas dinner by ourselves. Then for dessert later that night we made donuts and invited Ann and Berfun over to sample some. Berfun was an exchange student from Turkey that stayed with us for 4 days over Christmas and was going to stay with us for 4 months beginning in March (more about that later).
Getting ready to open presents!
Raquel and a few of her new barbies.
Natalya opening her presents!
Talking with Grandma, Anna and Lexi on Christmas morning.
Playing in their new play-hut. The girls have loved this new toy!
A couple of days after Christmas we found we had too many new toys and no where to store them so the girls got a belated Christmas gift, a toy chest. We picked it up and let the girls decide what color to paint it and then spent the afternoon painting together.
Priming the wood with dad!
Raquel picked pink to paint her and Natalya's new toy chest.
Mike also received a belated Christmas gift, a 1965 Mustang. I know we got rid of his other one so that we would only have 2 cars but some how we have began collecting cars and our house looks like a used car lot. He is really excited about his car and can't wait for the weather to be nicer so that he can drive it more to work. It will not be the new family car because we learned after we bought it that the back seat doesn't not have seat belts and no where to put some in.
