WOW we have had a crazy past 4 days! On Christmas Eve we went to my Mom's, John's parents & Church. Christmas day my Dad & Barb, John's parents & my Gram's all came over for brunch, we then went to my Mom's. Yesterday my mother-in-law and I went shopping. Last night John and I went to dinner with some friends while Raye hung out with MawMaw and PawPaw. Today we went to Bloomington for the Benson Christmas. Then we went to my step-mom's families Christmas. We have had an amazing time the past 4 days even though it's been crazy. Raye's 1st Christmas couldn't have been any better. She got plenty of toys and clothes. That's for sure! We want to thank everyone for your generosity this year. I know times have been tough for everyone and we are truly blessed to have such an amazing family and friends. Thank you very much everyone. We are glad we could share Ellie's first Christmas with mostly all of our family! We will never forget how special all of you made her 1st Christmas! This is not all the pictures I took by far. If you want to see them all I have them on my face book. If you do not have face book and would like to see all of them shoot me an email and I'll mail you a CD of the pictures for your computer. Enjoy the pics! If their are misspellings or sentences that don't make sense in this post forgive me! I'm exhausted and I've been working on this post for over an hour now. Forgive me! :)
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Our beautiful baby girl Ellie Raye on Christmas Eve morning! She's all ready to start her day! 
Yay her Aunt Hali made her a special gift for Christmas. She made Raye a home made ornament! How special! Thank you Aunt Hali! She really loves her Aunt Hali. She will get so mad at Aunt Hali sometimes that she will bite her though. It's funny because my Mom all ways teased Hali when I was pregnant and told her Ellie was gonna bite her. 
Uncle Jack and Ellie Raye, she was ready to get down and open presents in this picture! 
A glow worm! 
YAY a ball popper. She loves it! Thanks Granny & Papaw Griffey! 
Okay she's thinking I would of much rather got spotter for Christmas than this ball popper! This is one of my favorite pictures from Christmas! :) She does love the ball popper though! 
Thank you Granny & Papaw Griffey for the tiny butt chair like Papaw's big butt chair! We love it! 
Come on Dad get my glow worm out, I want it now! She loves her tiny butt chair! 
Papaw Griffey and Raye playing on Christmas Eve.
Nanny and Raye on Christmas Eve at the candle light service at church.
Opening up her pj's before bed on Christmas Eve. 
All ready for bed in her new Dora pj's! 
Santa's goodies sitting out for him! We also have the reindeer food ready to throw out in the yard.
Daddy throwing Raye Raye's reindeer food out for the reindeer to eat.
Santa came to our house!!!!! 
Santa(PawPaw,my Dad) came to our house Christmas morning. My Dad knew how John and I felt about taking Ellie to sit on some random man's lap dressed as Santa. So my Dad surprised us Christmas morning and came to our house dressed as Santa. It was probably the nicest thing anyone did for us this Christmas. It was simple and very meaningful to us. Ellie loved Santa! :) I guess it makes it even better my Dad was waving to people all the way out to our house dressed as Santa...haha! Crazy PawPaw would do anything for his Raye Raye! 
Christmas opening begins with the Lewis/Benson bunch! What a great Christmas morning! 
MawMaw and PawPaw took pics of Raye in a Ballerina outfit and Christmas dress and surprise everyone with pictures! How sweet!
DORA sippy cups, big girl sippy cups at that! 
MawMaw & PawPaw got her a set of Yo Gabba Gabba dolls and she LOVES them! She also got a Green Nike sweat outfit to match her shoxs. Yay! Plus a ton of other toys and outfits! Thank you MawMaw & PawPaw for all the awesome gifts! 
Raye's Christmas snow baby Great Grams got her! So cute. 
Daddy excited about his Duke & IU shirt and Raye's Madame Alexander Doll Great Grams got her! 
Yay a learning table in girl colors! Thanks for the great gifts Nanny & Papaw!
This is probably one of the funniest pictures from Christmas day...I guess she wanted to lick the box! 
YAY, finally getting to open Santa presents!
YAY! She finally got her own laptop! 
This was by far her favorite toy! She loves her Brobee doll that dances! 
Raye playing with Uncle Ross on Christmas Day. 
Aunt Karen & Uncle Larry came over Christmas afternoon to see the house and bring our Christmas. Thank you very much for the gifts. Ellie loves her books! 
Daddy playing guitar for the Beatles Rock Band.....what a pro. 
Aunt Hali and Raye singing Beatles on Rock Band for the Wii. 
Thanks Uncle Glenn, Aunt Cristee , and cousins for the pretty Gap dress and socks! 
Thanks Aunt Tina & Uncle Gerald for the matching property of the Benson family shirts! We will all have to get a picture in these. Way too cute! :)
She loves her learning table Nanny & Papaw Benson got her! 
Pushing her lion and walking behind it! Such a big girl!
Riding her lion Nanny & Papaw Benson got her! 
Yay her Aunt Hali made her a special gift for Christmas. She made Raye a home made ornament! How special! Thank you Aunt Hali! She really loves her Aunt Hali. She will get so mad at Aunt Hali sometimes that she will bite her though. It's funny because my Mom all ways teased Hali when I was pregnant and told her Ellie was gonna bite her. 
Uncle Jack and Ellie Raye, she was ready to get down and open presents in this picture! 
A glow worm! 
YAY a ball popper. She loves it! Thanks Granny & Papaw Griffey! 
Okay she's thinking I would of much rather got spotter for Christmas than this ball popper! This is one of my favorite pictures from Christmas! :) She does love the ball popper though! 
Thank you Granny & Papaw Griffey for the tiny butt chair like Papaw's big butt chair! We love it! 
Come on Dad get my glow worm out, I want it now! She loves her tiny butt chair! 
Papaw Griffey and Raye playing on Christmas Eve.
Nanny and Raye on Christmas Eve at the candle light service at church.
Opening up her pj's before bed on Christmas Eve. 
All ready for bed in her new Dora pj's! 
Santa's goodies sitting out for him! We also have the reindeer food ready to throw out in the yard.
Daddy throwing Raye Raye's reindeer food out for the reindeer to eat.
Santa came to our house!!!!! 
Santa(PawPaw,my Dad) came to our house Christmas morning. My Dad knew how John and I felt about taking Ellie to sit on some random man's lap dressed as Santa. So my Dad surprised us Christmas morning and came to our house dressed as Santa. It was probably the nicest thing anyone did for us this Christmas. It was simple and very meaningful to us. Ellie loved Santa! :) I guess it makes it even better my Dad was waving to people all the way out to our house dressed as Santa...haha! Crazy PawPaw would do anything for his Raye Raye! 
Christmas opening begins with the Lewis/Benson bunch! What a great Christmas morning! 
MawMaw and PawPaw took pics of Raye in a Ballerina outfit and Christmas dress and surprise everyone with pictures! How sweet!
DORA sippy cups, big girl sippy cups at that! 
MawMaw & PawPaw got her a set of Yo Gabba Gabba dolls and she LOVES them! She also got a Green Nike sweat outfit to match her shoxs. Yay! Plus a ton of other toys and outfits! Thank you MawMaw & PawPaw for all the awesome gifts! 
Raye's Christmas snow baby Great Grams got her! So cute. 
Daddy excited about his Duke & IU shirt and Raye's Madame Alexander Doll Great Grams got her! 
Yay a learning table in girl colors! Thanks for the great gifts Nanny & Papaw!
This is probably one of the funniest pictures from Christmas day...I guess she wanted to lick the box! 
YAY, finally getting to open Santa presents!
YAY! She finally got her own laptop! 
This was by far her favorite toy! She loves her Brobee doll that dances! 
Raye playing with Uncle Ross on Christmas Day. 
Aunt Karen & Uncle Larry came over Christmas afternoon to see the house and bring our Christmas. Thank you very much for the gifts. Ellie loves her books! 
Daddy playing guitar for the Beatles Rock Band.....what a pro. 
Aunt Hali and Raye singing Beatles on Rock Band for the Wii. 
Thanks Uncle Glenn, Aunt Cristee , and cousins for the pretty Gap dress and socks! 
Thanks Aunt Tina & Uncle Gerald for the matching property of the Benson family shirts! We will all have to get a picture in these. Way too cute! :)
She loves her learning table Nanny & Papaw Benson got her! 
Pushing her lion and walking behind it! Such a big girl!
Riding her lion Nanny & Papaw Benson got her! 
