Christmas!

We had such a great Christmas this year! We started out the celebration by going to my parent's house on Christmas Eve. We had some yummy dinner, played Christmas Bingo amongst other games, had our nativity, showed off some talents, and opened presents. My little family was supposed to constitute the Holy Family with Skylar as Mary, Kade as Joseph, and Alexis as Baby Jesus. Nick opted to be a shepherd. When it came down to it, Kade was too exhausted and cousin, Dylan, jumped into the role of Joseph. Even though he turned 18 this last week, I'm glad he's not too old to join in our nativity! We had a great night and were very grateful for exhausted kids who konked out on the way home, except for Skylar, who was insistent on leaving out cookies for Santa, which I'm sure Santa was very grateful for.
So Christmas morning arrived at 4:30 am. Skylar came to inform us that the big guy had been there. We told her to go back to sleep and wait until the sun was up. At 5:30 I heard Nick and Skylar over the monitor in Skylar's room and went in there. They had the light on and were chatting away excitedly. I told them to go back to sleep. Surprisingly, they did. At 7:45, Nick came in to tell us that the sun was up. We agreed that it was and dragged ourselves out of bed and then the mayhem began.
We were spoiled, as usual, and Ben and I decided we're dumb. We just get crazy good deals and end up with too much. Anyway, the highlights for the kids this year were Skylar's Rainbow in my Room and pink V-smile pocket, Nick's V-Smile pocket and cool, light-up Batmans, Kade's Little Einsteins rocket and R2-D2 Laptop, and Alexis's Kickin' Bobbin Gym-which folks, unfortunately doesn't come even close to our old beloved Kick Start Gym which was kicked to it's death by Skylar & Nick. Alexis seems to enjoy it though. We also scored a Wii, which has already brought hours of fun to our abode.

Sweet Baby Alexis's first Christmas!

After the loot was all opened, Ben's family-his mom, sister, and brother-came over to our house to spend the day. We had some lunch , opened more presents, and relaxed. It's so nice to be able to stay home and chill on Christmas. Our kids also love being able to stay and play with all of their stuff! We had a really nice, relaxing day. What a great ending to a great Christmas!!