An Early Christmas

We had our Christmas morning a few days early since we won't be able to do it on real Christmas. It was fun just to relax and spend the time together. This was the first Christmas that Matthew was really able to anticipate Christmas enough to be excited about it. It was fun to see how eager he was!

Matthew in a clacker frenzy - a surprise he found in his stocking. I was amazed that both kids had no trouble with the clackers. I wasn't sure Anna could do it - but she can!

We had German pancakes for Christmas breakfast and we baked half of them as little individual muffins. They were tasty.

Matthew and Anna are still a little young to totally get Christmas, but not in a bad way. They were so excited just to open one gift, let alone more than one. Here they are opening some.

The kids got this inflatable cozy coupe complete with balls to go inside.

They are having fun with it, but its probably just a matter of time before it causes someone bodily harm.

Matthew got a camera. He was very excited and ran around snapping pictures of everything.
I also got a new camera - a digital SLR (hooray!!) - with which I took this picture. I'm not a great photographer, which you will know if you've seen much of this blog ;), but I took these pictures knowing pretty much zero about how to work the new camera and they already turned out better than most of my point-and-shoot pictures. I'm excited to learn more about my camera - hopefully I can become a better photographer.

I took this one with the new camera too - Anna snuggling her new kitty toy from Grandpa K. She was very sweet with her new "kitty." Merry Christmas everyone!