White Christmas

The kids got up pretty early on Christmas morning.  They were excited.  We were all wearing our special pajama pants at one point, but we had an amazing number of bathroom accidents this morning.  Chalk it up to Christmas excitement!

 

It snowed during the night, maybe only an inch or two, but it made for a very cozy Christmas morning.

Santa must have been hungry.  He ate ALL his cookies.  Matthew kept telling me how disappointed he was that last year Santa left a part of a cookie on the plate, uneaten.  So he was happy that Santa ate everything this year.  No cookie parts left behind!

 The kids checked out their stockings while everyone else woke up

 Grant found some Pop Rocks in his stocking

 Anna found some goodies in there too

 I think he was looking at a little Transformer here

 Before we opened presents we ate breakfast

On the menu, same as last year, cinnamon rolls, German pancakes and fruit salad

Finally the gift opening got underway.  John was still asleep at the beginning so Grant got to go first.  We went youngest to oldest at the beginning and then it just turned into a free for all.

 Anna got a special Lego set from Daddy

Grant opened a Little People Pirate Ship first and then didn't want to open or look at anything else.  He really liked it...I guess that's good.

 Here's Matthew with an excavator Lego set from Daddy

 And his Leap Pad

And Anna with a Crayola Light Designer toy. 

Scott was able to skype with us during part of the unwrapping, which was great.  It was a bit chaotic, but so nice to be able to sort of have him with us.  And he didn't have to open any of the non-rage-free packaging either.  Lucky!!

A little ride-on-Bullseye for Johnny (yes, Johnny finally woke up and joined our Christmas morning fun).

He even got to take a little ride on Bullseye!

We had a lovely Christmas morning!!  Merry Christmas everyone!