Christmas

In all our Christmas mornings we've never had the kids wake up super early to open presents. Some years I'm the one waking them up! Usually we don't get started till around 7:30 or so by the time they wake up.

Until this year.

In came the patter patter of excited feet at 3:30 a.m.!!!!

All three of these guys wanted to start opening presents right then.

Back to bed they got sent with the complaint of..."we can't sleep!"

But back to sleep they fell until they heard me clamoring in the kitchen at 7:15 with the turkey breast I forgot to pull out of the freezer the night before.

So we woke up Gavin...

And came downstairs to find all that Santa and left.

Abby asked for her own bag of chips...Santa delivered on this one!

Gavin's list consisted of chocolate, suckers, candy and Lightening McQueen car.

He started in on the chocolate even before wanting to open anything else!

Zachary's Christmas consisted of lots of Lego's and Mario Kart Wii

Gavin loved this big truck that towed a trailer with two motorcycles on it and played with it most of the time we were opening presents.

McKenna loved what Abby got her...a giant teddy bear.

Abby was ecstatic about a camera that Santa left

...and McKenna cried

...but not for long because under the tree Santa had left her a camera too!

The aftermath....

While we were opening presents it started snowing. It didn't last long and nothing stuck but it was still magical.

The rest of the day was spent building Lego's...

...playing Just Dance 2...SO FUN by the way...

...eating a yummy dinner...

...the girls making barbie videos on their cameras...

...and Nerf gun wars all through the house.

Abby of course found some time to read her favorite present of Christmas...Fablehaven 5

That night we got an inch of snow and church was cancelled. It was wonderful!! I know, I shouldn't say it was wonderful that church was cancelled, but we had such a great day as a family! And with two members of the primary presidency out of town, and it being the last Sunday of the year, I was dreading primary just a little. It was like Christmas Day all over again, minus the opening presents part. We played, ate, played some more, stayed in our PJ's all day, built Lego's, played Clue. It was great.

And now as McKenna has pointed out only 365 more days till we can do it all again!!!