Christmas!!!

Christmas morning was so much fun at our house. Each year seems to get better and better. The kids actually slept in this year. They NEVER sleep in! We actually had to send the girls upstairs to wake up Anthony and Jake around 7:00 because they were tired of waiting. Santa brought each of the kids 1-2 gifts and everyone slippers. The rest of the gifts were from mom and dad and the kids.

Jaileigh with her Ariel baby.

 

 

 

Annie with her baby.

 

 

Silly girls!

 

 

 

Look at this crazy hair!

 

 

Jaileigh holding up her new jewelry.

 

 

Michael found a horse in his stocking.

 

 

 

Jake trying on his new Batman slippers.

 

 

Anthony

 

 

Jake couldn't believe Santa put an apple and orange in his stocking!

 

 

 

Annie really, really wanted a guitar!

 

 

The best thing we did this year was have the kids draw names to by gifts for. They each drew a name and then Mike and I took them shopping for their person. They got to pick out the gift for their person. It was so much fun to watch them and they loved having a secret! When they opened their gifts for each other they were so excited! This is Michael giving Jaileigh a hug for his present.

 

 

Annie looking cute.

 

 

Anthony with his Spiderman watch.

 

 

Cute of Jaileigh. . . .

 

 

Cute of Michael.

 

 

Anthony and Jakob

 

 

Annie

 

 

 

Michael got the travel edition of "Where's Waldo" and he was done opening presents. It was too cute. He sat down and looked at this book for a good 10 minutes before someone reminded him he had more presents to open.

 

 

Jake and Annie

 

 

The motorocycles were hidden in the kitchen. It took the kids a long time to find them but when they did it was wild!

 

 

 

This was the most excited kid of the bunch.

 

 

She jumped on a stood up!

 

 

After Annie stood, they all had to try it.

 

 

Standing on it without hands!

 

 

many, many more pictures to come! I went a little picture crazy!

Christmas Eve

Our friends Bill and Gina usually come over on Christmas Eve but Gina was sick this year. They weren't able to make it down. We missed them but we were still able to have a little fun without them.

The kids and I delivered the rest of our Christmas goodies while daddy tinkered around on motorcycles with his friend in the friends' man cave stirring up the anger in this mama bear. When he finally decided to come home mom was mad, dinner was late and it was a bad start to Christmas Eve. Mom found it in her heart to eventually forgive (a little) and the evening carried on. We had shrimp, salmon and other yummies for dinner. We read the advent Christmas story and then opened our Christmas Eve presents. This year, thanks to a triplet moms idea, I put together a Christmas Eve box for the kids. They each received a new pair of jammies, one movie for the boys and one for the girls, a box of popcorn and hot chocolate. We watched the movies, ate popcorn and drank hot chocolate waiting for it to get late enough to head to bed.

Despite starting out wrong, the evening turned out well and we all had fun.

Jake reading the advent calendar.

 

 

Annie

 

 

 

I have a basket full of Christmas books that I leave out over the Christmas season. the kids love to get in it and read the books.

 

Anthony

 

 

Michael and Jaileigh

 

 

 

Anthony

 

 

Jaileigh showing off her new jammies.

 

 

Annie

 

 

Anthony

 

 

Jake put his on right away.

 

 

Annie, Jaileigh, Jakob, Anthony, Michael

 

 

I think Annie was hot!

 

 

 

We almost forgot to make Santa cookies. Anthony was my only helper.

 

 

 

Mom and Dad got the kids a motorcycle. Dad was trying to put the final touches on it.