Christmas Morning!

Christmas this year was FUN! I thought it might be more crazy, what with us doubling the kid population and all. But actually it was quite relaxing. Every year we have to wake our kids up so we can hurry and open presents and then rush out the door. This year we let our kids wake up whenever and then took our sweet time opening presents. SOOOO nice! The twins were still sleeping so we just let them sleep and let them open their presents later.

The night before we put out some cookies for Santa and some carrots for the reindeer. However, Maddi was mortified in the morning when she realized we forgot to set out some milk for Santa. Hopefully he will forgive our faux pas, and was able to get some milk at someone else's house.

We did the majority of our shopping before Thanksgiving and we wrapped them over a course of a couple of days. So much better than staying up late Christmas Eve!

Opening Presents!

Andrew opening his Lightening McQueen Look and Find book
Some Elves put together a Marble Maze (or Narble maze as Andrew says) We could hardly get Andrew to stop playing with it long enough to open his presents!

Maddi opening her Tinkerbell Look and Find bookAndrew opening up Mater! That thing was possessed. Santa had turned him off, but he kept coming back to life!! AHHHHH!!!!


And for the sake of journaling purposes, here's what we all got this year.

The kids asked Santa for a Wii. And he was nice enough to obliged. They also got a new step stool, and They might be Giants "Here come the 123s, ABC's and Science".

Maddi got an outfit, Super Mario Bros, some books, some markers and Andrew gave her some Tinkerbell walkie talkies.

Andrew got a Cars Wii game, some clothes, some books and a Mater Shake and Go car. Maddi gave him a small Mater car and some other little cars.

Elizabeth and Emily each got some sleepers, some hooded towels and some clothes. Maddi and Andrew gave them some toys to hang on their carriers.

Nana and Papa gave them some clothes and a Trampoline! They are VERY excited for Spring to come around! I'll be doing another post about Christmas Eve with my family.

I got a sewing machine and Jess got a PS3. Yeah, I'll never see him again.

After presents we had Egg Nog French Toast and then played Wii all day until going to dinner at my aunt's house. It was fun!

We had such a great Christmas this year! We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas too!