Christmas ...

Well it's over... Hope you all survived! :) We had a good day yesterday and got lots of good things! First off, Christmas eve... Mexican food! Yum! Then the kids get to open one present (jammies) So here they are showing them off for us!

Then we had to go put out our reindeer food! Maci loved this last year and this year they made some at school!
And Kernan was into this year too... He didn't understand why we were throwing stuff all over the grass but he liked it!

Here are Santa's Cookies and Milk.. (thanks Natalie for feeding Santa)
Isn't Maci's note to Santa cute?!

Now... Onto Christmas! We started a new tradition this year. We want our kids to understand the REAL reason for Christmas and that is the birth of Jesus so before they were allowed to go out and see what Santa got them we read the story of the birth of Jesus out of the scriptures and then said a prayer thanking Heavenly Father for his son and for everything he does for us! I really enjoyed it!

Then onto the presents! :)

Here is Maci finding her video ipod! The pig plays the music out the speakers in it's ears!

Stockings! What a surprise, Santa brought her High School Musical 2! We're watching it now!

Kernan's scooter...

It's all about Elmo with him... I loved this picture
He has the best facial expressions! I'm not sure what he is looking at here..
While we were all going through our stockings, Kernan slipped over to the cookies Santa didn't finish all the way and helped himself... Hahaha!

My favorite present of the day was what my husband surprised me with! My list this year was a little unrealistic... So he had a hard time with me! But he did great! In my stocking was a toy that looked like the rings babies play with... I was like, what is this!? And he told Maci and I to go look in her room there was a present in there for both of us! So we went in and he had gotten each of us a bird!! (My bird AllB's died in February, I had it for 10 years!) I never thought he'd let me have one again! And now we have two!!

This one is Maci's I'll get a better picture of mine... They are still in need of names though!

Onto presents... Kernan loved tearing off the present but then got so busy with the thing he opened didn't want to move onto the next one!

I love his expression here... "Oh Todd what are you putting together??"

The aftermath.... What a mess!

We go out to breakfast every Christmas morning with my family. It's been a tradition since I was little! Here are Brian and Todd at Ihop! We have really enjoyed having Todd here with us!

Kernan got a mini big wheel from my parents and loved going down Uncle Stockton's ramps!


Onto Brian's family.... We had dinner and opened presents...

Trevor's first Christmas! Doesn't he look handsome?!

Opening his presents with Mom.

And the drive home... The signs of a Long, Fun Day!



Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Now to the clean up! :)