The kitchen is what Santa brought and the rest of the family supplimented it with the food and dishes. They have spent endless hours making food for us and having so much fun.
Aunt Rike gave them them these really cute fairy outfits. They love them and wear them all the time. As a bonus: in this one you get to see my pregnant belly.
These babies were a smash-hit for Alicia. They go everywhere with her. You can also see her My Little Pony that she got. I have to admit that I am jealous about that gift.My family has the tradition the lay out all the gifts after they are opened and take a picture of them. It is great to look back and see what you got through out the years.
In the Jensen family we have the tradition of all the kids (cousins and all) line up in age-order on the stairs before going in and seeing the gifts. Since our girls are the only Dautel grandchildren so far, here is the line up.
They couldn't get enough of this vacuum. Anne spent hours using it last night.
I ordered these books for me at the beginning of December. Jared let me read the first one, but I had to wait for Christmas to read the other one.
I don't think I need to tell you how much both girls love this crown. Unfortunately, it got broken by Alicia this morning.
This was one of the biggest hits of the night. I think this will go down in the office with all the other instruments.
I love these matching outfits. Jared promised me that we can get professional family pictures taken after the baby is born. I think the girls will wear these.
Jared and I have made the goal to really focus on building our food storage. Ray and Beate got us started and Richy got us some things too.
Of, course they got a little creative with how they used them too.
Anne and Alicia love the piano at Gma's house. Anne will "lead" the music when Rike plays. Here they were both playing and singing.
Both girls got the chance to help Dad with the lights. I feel so bad. My girls always look so casual and never fully dressed when I put pictures up here.
Dancing to the Christmas music was another favorite of the evening.
Alicia never seems to be full. She is constantly scavenging for food. The excitement of last night didn't change that.
After we were done with the tree and taking a break Anne decided that she needed to "cut" our toes nails. She even covered our feet with "blankets". I love how she sticks out her tongue when she concentrates.
What a face. She kept putting on her Gma's glasses. 
where you like a different on each different Sunday. On the last one all 4 candles are burning. Beate has a tape of music that she has listened to on the 1st advent since she was a child. So we did the same again this year. We eat treats, talk and drink hot chocolate while we listen to the music. It was a nice way to end the evening. 
I guess Anne wanted to help by being the official frosting taste-tester. I think she like it.
We had absolutely everyone helping. Robby and Richy helped occupy the girls, Rike and Beate helped frost and were decorating advisors, and we enlisted Ray to help set up the gummi bears (the soccer players) in a convincing play position.
It is not exactly to scale, but you get the idea. I used sprinkles and things like that that for the spectators.
I loved this picture because it the candles that spell out "Happy Birthday" look like the huge light in a stadium.
One side was dedicated to FC Nürnberg, and the other...
...to FC Bayern-München, the arch rivals of Nürnberg. You can see what Jared did about that. 
Alicia has also been upgraded to a "new" bed. She gets Anne's old one. She had no hesitations about it at all. Tonight is the big test. We will see how the girls do in their new bed, especially Anne.