What a crazy Christmas day we had! Woke up bright and early. Well actually I didn't sleep much it was so windy I was just waiting for one of the kids to wake up and come in our room. Then Ethan and Elena both woke up around 5 AM to go to the bathroom and then I had to get them back to sleep. Natalie woke up crying around 6 AM and finally we had to wake up dad and Jason around 6:30 AM because I couldn't take it anymore. Mom and Dad went downstairs turned some lights on, got the coffee going and then started playing the Christmas music so the kids could come down. This pic did not come out clear, too many lights.
They read the letter that Santa left them. Ethan got a new snow shovel so he can help dad with one his size when it snows and Elena got a new sled.
Before we opened presents we lit a candle and sang "Happy Birthday to Jesus" and then they started tearing open the gifts!
They all got so many nice things. They shouldn't need to complain of boredom the rest of vacation! Ethan has been busy playing his new star wars game and building all kinds of things with his
K'nex. Elena and Natalie have been playing with their new computers and princesses. Of course Madison our cat got some treats as well. He always has to lay right on top of the wrapped gifts. Crazy cat!
Natalie's favorite gift of Christmas is her new black puppy she named Sparkle. She has said at least 100 times "That was nice of Santa to give me this black puppy" and Sparkle hasn't left her side.
I was cracking up to see miss Elena as a
blonde! She got a Hannah
montana dance mat complete with the wig and so she tried it on briefly. It was
soo funny! We ended the day with a yummy chicken dinner and my Dad and Pam came over to hang out with us.
They all got so many nice things. They shouldn't need to complain of boredom the rest of vacation! Ethan has been busy playing his new star wars game and building all kinds of things with his K'nex. Elena and Natalie have been playing with their new computers and princesses. Of course Madison our cat got some treats as well. He always has to lay right on top of the wrapped gifts. Crazy cat!
Natalie's favorite gift of Christmas is her new black puppy she named Sparkle. She has said at least 100 times "That was nice of Santa to give me this black puppy" and Sparkle hasn't left her side.
I was cracking up to see miss Elena as a blonde! She got a Hannah montana dance mat complete with the wig and so she tried it on briefly. It was soo funny! We ended the day with a yummy chicken dinner and my Dad and Pam came over to hang out with us.
Ethan liked getting to see cousin Joseph.
My sister Kristi, Just got her drivers license! SCARY!
My little girls...
What handsome guys. Looking so festivis-ish
They had to hold hands to go get Ethan and Elena from school :)
Soo, soo cute. That's all I can say.
I absolutely love watching these little kids sing their songs and dance. His music teacher was my music teacher when I was in elementary school :) She does such a good job with all the kids. She was one of my favorite teachers and I am glad that he gets to have her also.
Their theme this year was a Holiday parade and they had some cute songs. He practiced them so much miss Elena walks around singing his songs. He had a speaking part again this year, He couldn't wait for that and he did a great job.
I have always claimed Christmas as my favorite Holiday, but I realized this year that Thanksgiving is. You get together with family just to be together and eat. Think of all the blessings you have and just spend time together. What a wonderful thing.
The kids enjoyed themselves, they always love to go to Grandpa's to hang out. Jeremy has tanks of fish and turtles all over the house so the kids were quite entertained with that. We later stopped by Aunt Sandy's and had some dessert and looked through the piles of sale ads for the next day. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving and I am so Thankful for that!!
