Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas was wonderful this year! But, I'd have to say it always is. :) Tyler was an absolute joy and was SO into Christmas. He was really excited for Santa to come and sang "Santa Claus is coming to town" at least a dozen times a day for the last month or so. I really need to video tape it because it is absolutely precious - then maybe at some point I can post it on here if I can figure it out! :) Christmas Eve was spent at my mom & dad's. We do Christmas Eve dinner, play the white elephant present game, sing Christmas songs, Santa stops by and brings us new pj's, take a pic of the grandkids in their new pj's, read the Christmas story from the bible while everybody (usually just the grandkids now) dresses up to act out the nativity and then we clean up and head for home!

We got started pretty late Christmas morning. Generally we'd do the rounds at everybody's houses, but we didn't want to take Brooke out so we stayed home. Brooke decided she didn't want to sleep Christmas Eve (she must've known Santa was coming!) so we didn't get to sleep until after 3am. So....I wasn't too disappointed when we didn't get up until 9! Not that Brooke slept that 6 hours - we were probably up at least once or maybe twice for feedings. But....how crazy to not get up until 9am on Christmas morning! We told Tyler Santa had come and he couldn't get downstairs fast enough. He had his new cowboy hat on within seconds and had checked out all of his new toys in no time! It was 11 by the time we had all of our presents open and then we spent the day at home enjoying our gifts and each other. We went to my mom's for Christmas dinner and then headed back home for Tyler to play cowboy! :)

Tylers' loot....(cowboy hats, boots, shoes, clothes, tools, helmet, treasure chest, cars, dvd's, snow shovel, toy gun, camera, comforter...)

Ryan's fun stuff...

Brooke's loot...(diapers, wipes, clothes, pillow, hats, head bands, socks, gift cards....)

and mine...