::Merry Christmas::

Christmas morning!!  The kids came in at about 7 to tell us that Santa came!!!  They were so excited!!  Matt told them to wait 'til he and I were completely out of bed, awake, Bubba had gone potty, we had Ava, changed her diaper, and gotten the camera-which took all of about 2 minutes, but to them was a lifetime, and Portie might have snuck down the hall ahead of us.

I couldn't even get out there to get a picture before Chloe had passed out half the presents!  She was SO excited!

Avie Mavie totally knew what to do with her little presents (she had a little practice before Christmas).

Santa brought us lots of fun stuff!  And the kids got what they asked for:  

~Ava got a cute little baby skirt, a ruffley little baby dress, some baby bowls, some binkies, a Learning Purse, Learning Puppy, some sippy cups, and a pretty hairbow.  

~Cooper got some Hot Wheels cars, Hot Wheels wall tracks, Flip remote control car, a play-doh picnic set, a big Luigi, a squishy lizard, color wonder paints, Diego movies, and a Lakers shirt.
~Port got-a big Mario, a big K'nex set, a Lego City set, Hot Wheels wall tracks, some Hot Wheels cars, Play Doh dentist set, paints, paint brushes, a squishy lizard, Paper Mario Wii game, Lion King toys (Mufassa & Simba), and a Lakers shirt.  

~Chloe got an iPod!!!! (ok, not a real one.-Santa was a little nervous about giving an 8 year old a $150 piece of electronics, so he gave her a little pink Philips mp3 player, and she LOVES it!), a dock for her "iPod," some sparkly boots, a Lady Antebellum CD, a Barbie doll (the bride one), dentist play-doh set, a barbie movie, some nail polishes, nail polish stickers, and some little hair things.  

Santa gave all the kids a Brain Quest game (which is really fun), a big ol' box of play-doh, Just Dance 3 for the Wii, that Crayola crayon tower (it has tons of crayons and they don't get messy).  Matt and I got some fun stuff too.  My fave was a new camera lens.  It's the f1.8.  There's a bit of a learning curve to using it, but I kind of love that about it.  His fave would probably be the Lakers tickets :)  Sare and I decided we'd Santa would get them Lakers tickets and not tell either one that the other got some too, so when they came over on Christmas morning (because they always do, and we LOVE it) they'd be all surprised.  J looked at Matt's "gift" and was like "dude, you're sitting right next to us!!"  They were excited.  It's Feb. 4th.  Hopefully Kobe won't get injured or suspended or anything crazy like that for the game.

So, after our presents, we got all showered and dressed and went to church.  It was packed!  We had to sit in the overflow, and we were lucky to even sit all together.  We heard a really nice story about the Christmas spirit and heard the primary kids sing (only one song though), and then we were done.  Short and sweet-perfect for a busy Christmas Day :)  We came back home, ate some cinnamon rolls, J and Sae came over and played for a while, Grandma and Papa Snowman came over, then we packed up for my parents' house (and also our trip to St. George on Monday).


Our theme this year was a German Christmas.  Mom and Kevin were in charge.  So the menu had lots of meat (sausage, bacon, roast beef, ham (for the kids)) and also some German side dishes and desserts.  It was interesting and tasted pretty good.  We cooked out-on Christmas day.  Weird.


Here's our table.  Isn't it pretty.  That's my  mom.  She always does a beautiful table.  Look at the little stocking silverware holders..aren't they so cute?


After dinner (and lots of dishes-no paper plates at this house.  Grandma's too fancy.)  We opened some presents.  Grandma and Papa gave us lots of fun stuff.  Some stuff they brought back from their trip they took to Hawaii earlier in December.  They gave the kids lots of fun toys and even some huge solid gummy bears.  They spoiled us all, and we love it :)  And we love them. 


Merry Christmas to all!!