Christmas Morning came bright and early. There was pitter-pattering of little feet in the living room that woke me up :). I could hear the kids talking a little, and then Bradley came down to wake us up. I LOVE Christmas morning. It is my most favorite day of all. Just the cheerful, loving atmosphere even though we're all so tired. You don't get that just any day. Especially ones where you wake everyone up at 6:00 in the morning.
So while the kids go check out their stockings as they wake up, Nate starts on the Creamed Eggs on Toast. I usually just sit there and watch everyone :). It's so fun!! This year I got pictures:
One of the cute things this year, was the notes and treats that the kids put in each other's stockings. I loved watching them all read their letters from Charity and enjoy the candy from Bradley. I got several letters in mine. Really sweet, thoughtful kids. Glad they're mine.
Santa even had mercy on Kelly's "no candy" thing and got her Muddy buddy's :)
So once everyone looked through their stockings, we ate our yummy breakfast, the kids and Nate spoiled me with a new Kindle Fire for my Birthday, and then we headed on in to the Living room to open presents!!
We let Jack sleep in. I felt so weird about it, but I think it was the best thing :). Funny to remember that when Kelly was a baby, we woke her up to come open presents with us! Funny us. Anyway-
We always open Santa's gift first, and we go youngest to oldest:
Erika got her pillow! She loved it :)
it passed the swinging it around herself test.
Noah's turn...
he got his Captain America shield and mask. He was thrilled! Wish he would have looked at me with the same smile he gave Charity's camera :)
This kid can make about a million faces a minute! This was my favorite of this moment.
He's thinking, "Well... it's not a scooter...???"
"the Marble Thingy!!" He was happy :)
So exciting!
Seems happy enough :)
Kelly seems to know that she's going to love hers :)
yep, loves it!
Charity's looking at the Intel box....
No way!!! A LAPTOP!
Nate gave me a beautiful snowflake necklace
What's in here??
YAY!! I got Nate the Note phone he's been wanting. I think he likes it :)
After Santa's gift, we open the ones we got each other with our name drawing:
Luke had Erika, he gave her a bouncy ball that lights up. Bought it with his own money and he's not big on spending his own money, he's a saver... so this was big :)
Watching the ball bounce down the hallway.
Nate had Noah. He got him a Spider-man Web shooter. Looks relieved :)
Charity got Luke a bow and arrow. I love watching my kids love each other.
This pictures melts my heart... Erika helping Bradley open the gift she picked out for him. The nerf gun. He is so sweet about it and she's so happy to give it to him! I love it!
Bradley had Kelly. He likes to wrap things in many layers of box and wrapping paper :). Very entertaining to open. You can see how proud he is of it all :).
He got her some furniture to go with her Calico Critters
I had Charity. I got her a cute sweater dress and leggings. Unfortunately buddy made a hole in the sweater before too long. So frustrating.
Jack had me. So I picked out he got me a fun game, Quelf. I wrapped it for him though :)
Kelly got Nate a cool little airplane making kit. Nate loves it :)
This was about the time that Jack decided to grace us with his presence. He's so cute!
He opened his present from Santa, a cute little ball popper.
He's like, "How about I just watch you open it for me?"
Thanks Santa!
Not a lot of control with holding things still :)
I love watching the kids open their presents. Everyone is so happy, so excited, and has so many thank yous and they're all so sweet to each other and excited to see what each other is getting. I just love it! Have I mentioned that?
Kelly loved her Calico Critters! I was so happy because I knew she was going to love the gift that Nate and I had made the girls.
Charity made these cute little symbols drawings. All the things that the Christmas stuff represents :). I loved it! I'm hoping to laminate it to keep for future years.
The moment Nate and I had been waiting for! The unveiling of the dollhouse! They were pretty happy I think :) Didn't even notice that it was their old bookcase til later :). Nate and I had worked our little patooties off to finish this in just the week before Christmas. Nate did it really. I provided some of the vision, and the carpet and wallpaper :) but Nate did the rest. He's so cool. Turned me on just watching him work on it :). I've always wanted one of these.
Time for the boys' gift from Mom and Dad....
Their Motor Scooter!!! Couldn't be happier with that :)
We opened presents for a couple hours, then played with them for the rest of the day :). I had fun putting together Bradley's roller coaster with him. And playing all of our new card games from Mark and Nancy. It was a lot of fun. We're always so exhausted though. You really get almost delirious.
Grandma and Simon stopped by, got to see all the gifts, and gave me a birthday present... new scriptures!
My Aunt Nancy called soon after we finished opening presents, asked if she could come over and brought me a beautiful scarf for my birthday. So thoughtful! She's always so sweet about my birthday. I don't know how she remembers it.
Then my Dad came down, played with all the new toys for a while.
Heidi and John showed up around Lunch time and played a little. Heidi gave everyone a gift, gave me a nice birthday present. Then everyone went downstairs for some Runaway Bride. Not sure why they chose that... but whatever :).
Steve and Jauslin and the Hatches joined us around 6:00. It was a full house! We had a lot of fun I think :) It was all so blurry :). Jauslin was so thoughtful to give me a new basket for my sewing stuff, and Sarah and Brent gave me a Cafe Rio gift card!! Makes my mouth water just thinking about it!
We got started on dinner a little late, and didn't finish it til almost 7:30... oops. And it was yummy, but we were all SO TIRED!!
Nate surprised me with a yummy ice cream cake! Dairy Queen, my favorite! He's always so thoughtful! Everyone is for that matter! I can't believe everyone remembers my birthday on a day like that.
It was a great day! I LOVED it!! It's always hard for it to be over. I am always wishing we could do it again, sooner.
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