Clare's POV

I woke up the next morning in Eli's arms. He warm skin against mine was an amazing feeling. I turned my head to look at him. He was awake and just looking at me, smiling.

" Good morning." I smiled up at him.

" Good morning to you too." He gave me a small kiss on the cheek.

" I checked on Scarlett. This was her first night without waking up." He sounded excited.

" I'm glad. We had a busy night last night." I smirked up at him.

" Yes we did." He leaned down to kiss me again. This time it was a long and sweet kiss, filled with passion. I pulled away and pulled his arm back around my waist and snuggled back into his chest. He pulled me closer, if that was even possible. His face snuggled into my neck. His lips warm lips brushed against my skin, leaving the spot feeling tingly. He gently sucked on my pale skin. I smiled.

" You know christmas is in a couple days." I said as he still sucked on my neck.

" I know." I felt him smirk against my neck.

I heard Scarlett start to cry in the room next door.

" Babe, I have to go get her. I can't just let her cry." I said as I tried to remove Eli's arm from around my waist.

" Fine, but we will pick this up later." He smirked at me as I got up and walked of our room and into Scarlett's. She was lying in her crib, the pink blanket tossed to the side and she was crying.

" Aw, baby girl. It's okay, mommy is here." I picked her up and cradled her in my arms. I slowly rocked her back and forth until she stopped crying. She looked at me with big blue, puffy eyes. I just smiled and kissed her forehead.

" Come on, let's go say hi to daddy." I walked out of the room and into mine. Eli was sitting up in bed, on his laptop.

" Someone wants to say hi." I smiled as I brought Scarlett over to Eli. He smiled a big smile, shut his laptop, and held out his arms.

" Hi sweetie!" He laughed as he took her from my arms and brought her into his.

" I think she needs a bath today." I said as I sat down in front of him on the bed.

" Does someone need a bath?" He asked as he brought his nose to Scarlett's. She giggled a little bit.

We walked into the bathroom and turned on the water. We bathed her in the sink, she was too small for the bathtub. When she was nice and clean, we put her down for her nap. We walked back to our room, hand in hand.

" I need to take a shower." I said as I let go of his hand. I walked into the bathroom and went to shut the door, when I saw that Eli was standing in the door way with a smirk plastered on his face.

" No."

" Come on baby…" He said walking towards me and wrapping his arms around my waist. He knew that I couldn't resist him.

" Nothing will happen other then showering." I smiled and pointed my finger at him. He smirked, and took off his shirt. I just stood there, not moving.

" Do you need some help?" He said as he tugged on my shirt.

I just smiled and took off my shirt.

We finished showing and were now eating lunch. We sat at the table across from each other.

" We still need to get a christmas tree." Eli said, talking a sip of his iced tea.

" No we don't." He said, taking another bite of his sandwich.

" We are getting a christmas tree right?"

" Yea, but I already got one." He smiled.

" When?"

" When you went over to my mom's."

" Really? Aw, thank you!" I smiled at him.

" Your welcome. I wanted to have it up by the time you got home the other day, but then we ate dinner at my mom's house."

" We can put it up today, after we eat?" I suggested.

" Sure.: He smiled again and took my plate and his to the sink.

The tree was out back on the patio. It took us a little while to get it in the house and put it in the tree stand. We stood back and looked at our small tree, sitting in the middle of the living room.

" Ready to decorate?" He asked as his arm wrapped around my waist.

" Yup." I smiled and smacked my lips.

We grabbed the box of decoration that we had put together over the years when we were engaged. There were some small glass ornaments and some large plastic ones. We also had some twinkly lights, some were colored and some weren't. I pulled over a chair from the table and hung the light on the top of the christmas tree while Eli pulled the large angle out of the box and put it on the top of the tree. After the lights were hung, we started putting the ornaments on. We got through all of the ornaments in the box, when I remembered something. The ornaments that Cece had given us. I ran up the stairs, into our room, grabbing the of of the night stand.

" Where did you go?" Eli asked when I got back.

" We forgot these." I said as I hung them on the tree. Eli walked around to the back of the tree and plugged the lights in. He walked back around and pulled my in to a hug. I wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled him closer.

" I love you." I said against his chest.

" I love you too." He kissed the top of my head and we stayed like this for what felt like forever.