Here are the kids checking out Santa's route on Norad's website. They were so excited to announce, "Santa's now in Germany!!"
We had a great Christmas dinner. Everyone pitched in and made something it was delicious!
Amelia and Eli enjoying Christmas Eve at their level, such cute babies! Amelia grew up so much this week. She cut a couple teeth and worked hard at going up stairs, big girl!
We had a great evening with a talent show for the kids, acting out the nativity, and singing Christmas carols by the lights of the tree.
Of course we got new jammies from grandma and grandpa. This year Toy Story 3 was a hit with all three boys.
It only seemed appropriate to let all three boys sleep together on Christmas Eve. They were so excited, so wired. They had looked for Rudolph's blinking nose in the sky, left cookies for Santa, and carrots for the reindeer, they were so ready! Here's Mike telling his classic Little People bedtime story. All was well until the middle of the night when Andrew kicked Tanner because he was touching him in bed! It was pretty funny! Mike ended up sleeping in the bed with them the whole night, he's a good man.
And then, the long-awaited Christmas morning! It was everything they (or we) ever dreamed of. Pure excitement!
Light Sabers were definitely the gift of the year! We've been nonstop Jedi combat since Christmas morning.
Every year Mike's parents give jammies and a book to the grandchildren. Grandma didn't realize it, but she happened to pick a book about a baby hippo that Andrew has been eyeing at the Bean Museum gift shop. He was so thrilled when he got it, he even took time to carefully look through all the pages. What kid reads books while opening Christmas presents? Usually they get tossed aside until the excitement of the morning has passed and we return to them in the afternoon. He loves the book!
Glenn wins the award for the best surprise. In the last few years, April has lost, broken, or drowned more camera's than I've ever owned in my life. Glenn was awesome and totally surprised her with an awesome SLR camera! Good man, and yes, April is protecting it with her life!
This year we started the tradition of our children making gifts for each other. We had a lot of fun sneaking around and making different presents for each other (we had a lot of Modge Podge going on at our house!). It was so fun to see our children be so excited when their brother or sister was opening the present they made. They experienced the great feeling of giving gifts to others.
Amelia's first Christmas!! She was adorable and sweet as she took it all in. Here she is opening her first baby doll!
And here we are, presents opened, hugs given, sugar ingested in many ways (ie candy, hot chocolate, cinnamon rolls, raspberry streusel muffins, etc), it was a fantastic Christmas!
Here's the walking group headed out for a nice walk to the lake and back. On our way home this particular morning, we took a slight detour and ended up walking home the long way through marshy fields and snowy roads. Mom was a trooper, as she recently had surgery on her foot the month before!Congratulations if you made it this far! We had a wonderful Christmas and couldn't have asked for a better vacation!
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fun update lizzie! i really wish andrew and calvin lived closer. they seem so much alike! love you guys!
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