Josh and I stayed up way into the night to get ready for the much anticipated Christmas Morning! I had been waiting for WEEKS to tell the kids the BIG SURPRISE!!!! Despite going to bed in the wee hours of the morning, at 6 am when the kids yelled down, "Mom and Dad!!! We're awake!," I yelled back in my excited, deep morning voice, "I'm awake too!!!!!" I had been awake for a bit and just waiting for them to call to us. The kids always have to wait at the top of the stairs, while Josh goes and "makes sure Santa came." That means he turns on the lights, I grab the camera and we adjusted last minute strings - ones we left undone just in case we needed to get through the house in the middle of the night. :)
Yellow yarn everywhere was quite the surprise when they came down! But, they still didn't know what it was for!!!!
Stockings first!
Santa DID come!
Kaley got a bungie chair.
Thomas got an iPod shuffle.
Bella got a CD player.
Jace got a serious pack of wall balls.
And this crazy Sophie girl got her Nutcracker (and ballet clothes for her doll.)
More present fun! We gave the kids a small thing from mom and dad and a couple little things. They were told that this year would be different than years past - not as many presents.
The kids always go to the dollar store and pick out a present for each of their siblings. We've done it where they just draw one sib name, but they like it better when they do a gift for everyone! These two got glasses!
T and his PINK socks! I don't understand his new obsession with pink, but ok! We now wear the same size and same color/kind of socks! Weird!
Tennis rackets for the boys!
Jade's thing from mom and dad was his own stack of paper, a stapler and tape. He was SO excited!
That was the end of presents from under the tree!
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