Christmas Day Rewind

When the kids asked me what time they could get up on Christmas day I told them that we would get up and open presents whenever Liam woke up.  He usually wakes up around 6:30 am.  For some reason he slept in until 7:30 on Christmas day and I was amazed that Em and Jason hadn’t come up before then to see if he was awake yet, but I never heard them.  They are good kids. 

Liam really only got one thing this year.  It was so fun to watch him with it.  I was holding him as we walked into the living room and as soon as he saw the train table he had to get down and run over to play with it.  He has a bit of a love hate relationship with it right now because when he can’t make it work like he wants to he gets upset and then rips all the tracks up.  This is the only time so far that the whole track has been set up with all the pieces, but I’m confident that he will have many years of fun with this.  He wasn’t really interested in opening anything else after this (all he had were a couple things from Em and Jason). 

My big gift was a laptop…again, I’ll spare you the scary pictures of me.  Jason had me convinced that I wasn’t really getting a laptop because when he gave me my gifts to put under the tree they both seemed too heavy to be a laptop, so it was a great surprise.  I’m loving it and using it way more than I would have used the fancy camera that was also on my wish list. 

Em and Jason each got a few smaller gifts that they enjoyed opening.  We saved the best/biggest for last and we made them work for it.  We made a scavenger hunt for them with several different clues.  It was so fun to see them working out the clues together and working to find their last gift.  The first clue was in the tub.  one of the other clues was in the kitchen.  Here they are after they found the big family gift.  They were Super excited to try it out and we’ve been having tons of fun playing it ever since.  (More on that in a future post) We spent the rest of the day playing as a family and enjoying all our new stuff. 

I got to talk to my parents and all my siblings (Kathi got her call the day after Christmas) So that was nice.  I don’t talk to my siblings enough.  I need to call them more. 

Saturday we headed up to my Aunt’s house to celebrate with her and my brother Jim and his family.  The boys had fun playing wii golf and the girls and kids froze at the park after lunch.  It was great to see them all and enjoy their company. 

It was a fabulous Christmas for us this year and the kids were heard saying it was the best Christmas ever—exactly what I hope to hear every year.    Hope yours was great too!