Christmas Morning

Every year for Christmas we make our kids wait until we wake up before they can go into the living room to see what Santa brought them. Santa does not wrap the gifts that he brings so we always like to be there when they first see everything they got from Santa. My dad always made us wait too and it was the excitement of waiting (and teasing of course from my dad) that was so fun. Whytli decided the night before that she would take my cell phone into her room and call Brett's cell phone in the morning and let us know they are awake to see if they can come upstairs yet. They were up by 7:00 am.

They were very pleased to see that Santa had eaten all their cookies and chocolate milk and that Santa's reindeer had eaten their oats. Eddie, our elf, also left them a special letter and let them know that he had to go back to the North Pole with Santa and hoped to see them next year.

The kids had made me and Brett a bunch of gifts (from home and at school) to open and decided that they wanted us to open all our gifts first. They were all really cute gifts including a CD of Adelie singing Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. They also gave us 2 gold dollar coins with a note that said they just wanted to give us a little something to use since we spent so much money to buy them special gifts. It was really cute and we told them we would make sure to use it to go on a date.

In no special order these are some of the pictures of our morning.

This is them waiting at the top of the stairs for us to let them go into the living room. Brett was taking his time getting the camera ready.

Mallory got 4 new Disney Princess dress-ups that she loved. She loves to play dress-ups all the time.

These are some of our gifts the kids made for us.

I finally made Brett his missionary scrapbook that he has asked for for the last 10 years. I'm not really into scrap booking so that is why it took so long.

The girls opening a movie that was for all of them.

Brett opening one of Nash's gifts. He wasn't too interested in opening his own gifts so Brett and I did it for him.

Whytli got a book that I made for her all about her special baptism day.

Adelie really wanted a Hannah Montana sleeping bag.

Mallory opening her box set with a bunch of princess games in it.

Whytli and Adelie got a lot of Hannah Montana stuff.

They also got a box set of the Harry Potter books and 4 new Junie B. Jones books. They asked Santa for these in hopes that their dad will read them the Harry Potter books.

We loved getting all the fun little gifts that they made for us. It was so cute watching them watch us open them. They were so excited and proud of everything. We absolutely loved it.

I also made them a book all about sisters - full of pictures of them.

This was one of the gifts Santa brought Nash and the ONLY gift he cared about. He got this first and sat here the entire time (about 45 minutes) while everyone opened their gift. He was just relaxing in his chair, kicking his feet.

His dad insisted he had to get some manly toys so that we don't have so much princess girly stuff in our house. He thinks we need to start making this house more manly. Nash only played with these for a minute and then it was off to his chair.