So excited for Christmas!

I cannot begin to describe how excited we are for Christmas this year! It's our first Christmas with our dear little Leah and we've already helped her practice opening presents. She's pretty good but she's usually more interested in the colorful wrapping paper than what's hidden inside. But it's still a lot of fun to watch her try to figure things out.

Leah's discovering so many new things these days. She loves grabbing her toes and staring at them. When she gets excited, she raises uses her whole body to respond. She kicks her legs out and raises her arms high. It's adorable to see how excited she gets, especially when she's playing with her daddy. And Leah is our little social butterfly. She smiles at everyone and tells them stories She loves meeting new people and having all the attention focused on her.

We're definitely going to take tons of pictures this Christmas but, until then, here's few pictures of our sweet little girl for your viewing pleasure. :-)

 We took Leah to visit Temple Square for the first time a few weeks ago. Too bad it was raining and really crowded the day we went so it was a really short visit but it was a lot of fun and we had to get pictures to document another one of Leah's firsts.

 Leah's auntie Em came along with us. Leah sure loves her aunts.

 Leah loves to smile. This is the adorable look she gives to her many admirers. Doesn't it just make your heart melt?

 David, of course, had to have a snowball fight with his little brother after the first official snowfall of the season. It lasted a few hours.

 And JR won. David got hit pretty hard and was down for a few minutes. But he eventually got back up.

 Then they made a snowman and put Leah on top so she could be the head. She was our cute little abominable snowman.

 Our laughing little Leah.

 We took some family photos for our family calendar and came up with some adorable pictures. Leah is definitely the cutest of us all.

 Like mother, like daughter. My mom always closes her eyes during pictures and she obviously passed that down to Leah and me.

 Poor Leah! She's not too fond of being stuck between us.

 We sure love our little princess!

 We went to the midnight showing of the Hobbit a few weeks ago and David's sisters made hobbit dresses for the occasion.

Leah stayed home with grandma and had a wonderful time. She's just not too sure about what her mother is wearing.