Christmas Day

I was a little stressed about Christmas morning 'cause it was a Sunday and we had to get to church at a certain time.  Our church starts at 11 and I had to be there at 10:30 for choir practice.  Luckily we were able to open presents, have Christmas breakfast and still get ready for church on time.  It was a Christmas miracle!   Here are a few pictures from our Christmas morning.  A blurry Grant discovers the tree.  When Matthew saw the tree he said we had 100 miles of presents.  :)

 Finding presents to open.

 Anna got Tangled (the Rapunzel movie).

Matthew got a scooter and was very excited about it.  He kept telling us Santa forgot to also bring him a skateboard.  We kept telling him Santa knows he's not quite ready for that yet.  :)

Matthew picked out a pillow for Scott this year - a very exciting present.  And Anna had to get in on the thank you hugging.

Grant checks out one of his presents.

 And another one.

 Scott got some tools.

And some of our Christmas breakfast.  We combined some of our family traditions this year.  We made German pancakes (a Keeler tradition) and had a special fruit salad and cinnamon rolls (Guptill traditions).  I was very happy that all the breakfast items made it to the table - it was a little uncertain there for a while.  It was a very nice breakfast.

Sadly, church was not the highlight of our day as it probably should be.  I sang three songs with the choir and had to run up and down from the stand since Scott had taken a fussy Grant out to the foyer.  No one else in the choir came down from the stand between songs, so it was just me running back and forth.  Anna and Matthew were sitting alone in the pew while I sang and not quite behaving themselves.  Matthew did get to go up and sing a few songs with the primary, which he liked.  I also had to run around and collect paperwork from people and get signatures for the Cub Scout Pack rechartering after the meeting.  :(  By the end of the meeting some of us were feeling pretty grouchy.  We had to go home and decompress a little bit.  We made a biggish Christmas dinner with ham, potatoes, rolls, Scott's baked beans, glazed carrots and the rest of our breakfast fruit salad.  It was very nice.  Merry Christmas everyone!