Children's Winter Swap! Boxes Arriving!

[rybett]

Box on it's way!!  Massive thanks for the stocking in Charlotte's box.  Her regular one seems to be missing ATM.  Good to have a spare. 

[xeevee]

Lily received her box from Julia today.  She was so excited to get a 'rivery' as she calls them.

Here are some pics:

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First thing she noticed was the bear, which obviously she loves.


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Looking through the Christmas stocking (which has her name on it.  So awesome).

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Her Christmas Doggy!  She is one happy girl!

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A pony colour in book

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and here she is with all her loot.  The card Julia made for her is sitting at the front.  Thank you Michelle and Julia!

[michelle53]

Aweeee!!!!!   Hooray Lily:).  I hope she liked the doggie!  When we bought it, I was carrying it around Target and some lady asked me where I found it. 

OMG, both Lily and Julia got their boxes today!!!  I'm going to be out tonight, but I will post so many pictures tomorrow.  I owe Remy pics of Aria's loot! 

Here are our brag pictures!!!

This is Aria's loot she received from Remy and Kate/Xeevee:
Stickers of Tinkerbell (Aria's favorite)
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Santa pops
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Minty stickers (which are hanging up all over the girl's room)
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Adorable slippers for her doll
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Doll clothes!
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Twilight Sparkle
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Activity book!  I've never seen this one before
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Aria's loot
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My babies.  Aria is the one on the right in the blue, Lily is in the middle and Julia is the smallest one:)
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Julia's goodies from the super Mellie and Larisa/Katgyrl:
A super sweet little baby doll with a happy face:)
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Cherry Berry and yummy snacks
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Crayon rings!  I've never seen these before but we are having such a blast playing with them.  Julia loves showing off her rings!
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More yummy snacks
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Lily's loot!  She was showered with lovely gifts from Elisabeth and Mndancer
My sweet girl showing off her beautiful new Abbey and her MH stickers
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The other pictures I took didn't come out, so I'll try to remember all the awesome stuff she got:
A Disney Princess stocking stuffed with yummy candy.
Monster High body glitter and chapstick
Hot cocoa and a Disney Princess wash cloth
Super warm socks!  A huge hit in this house:)

Thank you beyond words for all these amazing gifts!  My mother was here yesterday when we opened Julia's and Lily's boxes, and her eyes were filled with tears over the beautiful and thoughtful presents.  She couldn't believe that 'people we've never met face to face' could be so generous and giving!  Lily almost cried because she was so overwhelmed by her beautiful new Abbey!  She loved that the body glitter made her skin look as sparkly as Abbey's!
Aria wrote in her school journal about her new friend Remy and the staggering amount of presents she received.  Aria kept saying "they are so nice Mommy" after opening each gift!
Julia has been running around the house wearing her crayon rings and has been thoroughly enjoying her veggie strings and Annie's fruit snack (ok, I've been enjoying them too!  So yummy!!!).

Thank you all so much for making this swap extra special for my daughters!  My cup runneth over with love and joy:)  Thank you ButterflyButtons for hosting this beautiful swap and for encouraging me to participate!!!   There is so much love and giving here on the Arena, and I am so blessed to have found this wonderful site.  Honestly, I feel like the happiest woman in the world right now to be apart of such an amazing community   I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!!!

[xeevee]

awww.. your post made me all teary, Michelle.  I'm glad your girls loved all their presents!  I love how Aria wrote about her new friend Remy.  So cute! 

to you and your girls.

[xeevee]

Remy received his swap box from Charlotte today.  He was so happy, basically dancing around.  He loved the card Charlotte made.  And he said she must had been a mind reader to know what kind of things he liked.

Photos:
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Opening the box

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Chocolate Santa

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Rocking out with his Santa Pez Dispenser.

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Remy and Lily with Remy's loot!

He was especially impressed with the personalised ornament.  He said it was so thoughtful.

There was also an birthday present included, which he has decided to hold onto until his birthday.  Thank you so much Charlotte and rybett.

[rybett]

It seemed logical to include a birthday gift as well.  Glad he likes everything.  The little finger lights came as a 3 pack.  Charlotte nabbed one, another went to work with me for middle of the night charting.  I need more for playing!  Oddly enough, the notebook was the hardest for find. 

[MnDancer]

I'm so glad Lily liked them! Elisabeth was thrilled to hear Lily likes Monster High just like her and insisted on getting a Monster High doll! I thought it was really cool that Abby was all sparkly, too! Elisabeth LOVES her Laguna Blue doll! She generously shared her candy with the whole family, keeping her faves for herself, of course It also got her to do her homework quickly, since I told her she could open stuff as soon as it was done! SO a big Thank you from ME on that one! and a big thank you from her, too!
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[kiwimlp]

Cookie got a huge bag in the mail today!  I am going to make him wait until Christmas morning to open it though - and only if he is a good little monster

[butterflybuttons]

Yay!!!!

Well done everyone! I'm so proud of you all.

[Katgyrl]

Sorry for being MIA guys, I've been sick with the flu since the 10th. I love all the boxes! Yay, I'm glad Julia's box came and she liked it!

Mellie loved her box of goodies! She got very spoiled by Xeevee! I don't have time to format them all to post them in-thread, but they are in my photobucket album here: http://s1097.beta.photobucket.com/user/katgyrly/library/SWAPS/MLPChildrensHolidaySwap2012?view=media#/user/katgyrly/library/SWAPS/MLPChildrensHolidaySwap2012?&_suid=1355777021905031436746275288213
(don't mind Mellie's messy face, she was just eating chocolate from her birthday party)

She got personalized letter crayons that spell her name, a pony coloring book, an adorable AJ board book (which my son has swiped and reads all the time), TWO new ponies - Twilight Sparkle and Cherry Berry, a princess puzzle, a stamp set, and lots of stickers and goodies! They were all very cutely wrapped and the card from Lily is adorable! Thank you for the wonderful box! It really was fun that it came on Mellie's birthday too! She was pretty thrilled to have a whole box of presents all to herself (usually I'm the one getting boxes of pony goodies ). Thank you so much!

[xeevee]

Awww.. Mellie looks so happy in those pics.  I'm glad she liked everything.