Christmas Day

After family prayer, the kids were so excited to dig into what Santa brought!


These 5 people with me will always be my favorite present!

Kaleb loved his Beyblade stuff, as well as his solar system model and origami paper. He was so sweet too and wrapped up all of his silly bands and gave them to Noe. What a good brother!

Noe was thrilled for all of her Disney Fairy dolls! She also loved her Toy Story 3 Barbie & Ken dolls and her DVD of The Princess and the Frog. Such a girlie-girl!

Gavin was so excited for his Mega Bloks Thomas set. Unfortunately, he couldn't set it up himself. His daddy set it up time and time again for him (taking 20 minutes each time), but as soon as he would drive a train down the tracks it would all collapse. We were all quite upset at Santa for supplying such a dud of a toy.

On Tuesday morning when I opened up the front room curtains, I found this gift with a note for Gavin.

Santa apologized for the defective gift and took it back to his workshop to redesign. In the meantime, he brought some new Thomas toys for Gavin. Gavin loves them and can actually play with them. Hooray!

Teague was so happy with his teeter-totter, but most of all he LOVES his tiny set of pots & pans and cooking utensils. He also likes his new felt food pieces too. Another chef in training- yippee for me!

Len got a new computer game, Cities XL, but we have to upgrade our video card for him to play it- ugh! Luckily, he can watch his DVD, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and read his new book, Towers of Midnight (13th book in Wheel of Time series).

I love my new picture frames to hang in the basement, my external hard drive to finally put all 6 years worth of digital pictures in one spot, and...

...the Strawberry Shortcake coloring books that Noe and I can color together with!

Gavin got the Toy Story 3 DVD in his stocking and all of the kids got a Toy Story 3 toy too. Kaleb got supplies to make TS3 cupcakes, Noe got Barbie & Ken, Gavin got the set of Andy's Toys, and Teague got Slinky Dog.

The kids got their wish and got to open gifts under all 3 trees. Both sets of grandparents sent us money for Christmas. Instead of buying more stuff, we decided to use the money for family outings. This is how we were able to take Kaleb and Noe to see The Nutcracker. We are also going to take all of the kids to see Disney On Ice. We put the tickets in a red envelope and put it on our white tree. We're so excited. Thanks Grandma & Grandpa and Gramma & Grampa!!

We spent the day in our pajamas playing with our new toys, dancing to Christmas tunes, talking on the phone to our Lee, Pittl, and Reil families, eating a yummy turkey dinner and lots of treats. We also watched our favorite movie, and truly It's A Wonderful Life!