Merry Christmas!!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and I will warn you all right now that this post has many, many pictures. I have such a hard time choosing from so many! Our Christmas Eve was fun. The kids were very excited about Santa coming to see them. And Elizabeth was good at remembering the true meaning of Christmas whenever I asked her about it. James got off work early, which was nice, so that he could spend part of the day with the kids and I. Mom and I worked most of the day on getting dinner made. We opted to have dinner on Christmas Eve so that we could be lazy on Christmas and just hang around the house. After we had dinner the kids opened their pajamas. Clay was so excited because he thought we were going to open all the presents. You can imagine the meltdown that came from that when he realized he only got to open one.

Analyn had a separate pajamas opening time. All three of the kids were sick and on antibiotics all week. So Analyn had been sleeping a lot. She didn't wake up until after the other kids were in bed. She really didn't know what to think about the paper, or the pajamas either. Poor kid was still so tired!

Christmas day arrived and the kids were so excited! I was excited too because they didn't wake us up until 7 am and we didn't have attempts to get up in the middle of the night. First thing Lizzie asked when she got up was if Santa had come. Normally we will all climb into our bed and read the story of Jesus' birth from the bible. However, with the baby being sick and still sleeping we opted to skip it this year. I was proud of Lizzie because throughout the day she would bring up why we were really celebrating Christmas. Clayton was excited but overwhelmed at first too! His first stop was to check out the stockings. This kid won't keep his pajamas or diaper on a lot of the time. Hence the red duck tape. One morning I went into their room to find that Clayton had gone to the bathroom all over the floor. After having to clean up that mess I have started to duck tape his diaper at night so he can't get it off. Soon I will potty train him, but not quite yet!

Clay got a workbench with tools,

And Elizabeth got a play kitchen.

Analyn got a build-a-bear bunny from Santa. She loved it (along with a few other stuff toys she got).

We were able to skype with James' family in Tahoe while we waited for Grandma and Grandpa to get up. It was fun to get to actually see them and talk to them. Finally I let Clay and Liz go and wake up Grandma and Grandpa.

Uno flash! This game is so much fun! James and I are really into games and movies so every Christmas we always get at least one game and many movies to enjoy later.

Unwrapping the presents was chaotic this year. I was bummed because there wasn't much order to it, but what can you do with 2 toddlers who are excited to open presents. Clay even started trying to open presents that were to other people.

Analyn did pretty good. She even helped open some of her own presents. 9 times out of 10 she was much more interested in the paper that came off the gift than the gift itself, but I think she did pretty good.

So excited for this gift! James got me a sticker maker for my scrapbook stuff. This will go great with my cricut because the shapes and letter it cuts out are really hard to get glue on without getting it ever where. I can't wait to try it out!

We were all very blessed! The kids were spoiled rotten again this year (thanks to our friends and family). But we really enjoyed the memories we got to create! This will be our last first Christmas ever and I'm really not that sad about it. We had a wonderful time together as a family and getting to play with the kids and enjoy some fun new things too. Hope you all had a fun and safe Holiday!