Christmas Day

I was sadly lacking in photos of Christmas Day, but I did manage to get a shot of each of the kids playing with their 'Santa' gifts.

Also, here's Evie with her press-on nails from her stocking.  These lasted about 10 minutes for her, and Lizzie, who got similar nails, let hers stay on a whopping 3 minutes.  Great cheap gift that I didn't have to see again after Christmas day!

And this covers nearly everyone doing something.  Evie's putting together one of two puzzles she received.  Lizzie and Carson are thoroughly engrossed in their new 'Little Einstiens' video and Aaron (on the couch) is studying diagrams and videos to remind himself how to solve a rubiks' cube.

We played with all our new things for a couple hours, enjoyed an easy breakfast from our stockings of cocoa and personal choice sugary cereals.  Then we got ready for our last week of 1pm church.  The kids were excited to go and take their new Sacrament Meeting bags, which my mom made and filled for them.  Each bag has a book of mormon, a gospel ABCs book, temple and prophet booklets, and, for the girls, hankies, and for Carson, a book about Jonah.  I added a few coloring pages and an Altoid tin of crayons for each of them.  Since church was a simple Sacrament meeting filled with small talks and lots of Christmas music, it went pretty quickly.

After that, we headed home to nap before heading to Grandma and Grandpa's.  We gathered up some food items and gifts for those we'd be seeing and got ourselves out the door!  Grandma and Grandpa had waited patiently until after Church to open any gifts, and we walked in to a rush of, "Let's hurry and open presents now that we're all here!"  It was fun to see the gifts we gave get opened and the kids loved the things they recieved.  Their 'big' gift from their grandparents was a beanbag each.  Now they can lounge in confort to watch tv, read, or play quiet games!  (Or jump from each beanbag to the next...their not-so-quiet game.)  Our big gift from them was a TV - Aaron's been wanting a new one for a couple years now.  He loves it!

(This picture was taken well after Christmas, but you can see how we all love those gifts!)

After the gifts were all opened and at least catagorized into family piles, we visited, ate an easy dinner of ham, rolls and baked potato bar with a couple small sides.  It was such a nice time to just enjoy one another's company!  We loved our Christmas and hope all our loved ones also had a wonderful day!