Christmas 2014

The kids played so hard on Christmas Eve that they slept in on Christmas morning.  Mike was up early waiting for them.  Eventually he woke them up at 8am because he couldn't take it anymore.

First they opened their stockings.  They enjoyed those and were ready for presents.
 
The doorways were lined with wrapping paper for the kids to bust thru.


Amelia was fun again.  She kept saying it was just what she wanted.

Hayden was also fun.  He would say I am so lucky.

The kids talked to Nana and Papaw on the phone and opened their gifts.  Apparently Amelia peeked earlier and knew she got frozen pajamas.  That little sneak.  Hayden got legos and already built them that day.

Later that morning Pap and Grandma Barb came over for breakfast casserole.

Pap got Hayden a pinball machine.  Amelia got Sophia figures.  Both have been played with a lot already.

For dinner we went to Aunt Patti's house.  We had the traditional ham and scalloped potatoes for dinner.




We visited Gram
 

At some point an old Nintendo was found and video game tournament began.  The game was Mortal Combat and Ryan killed everyone.

When we got home the kids called Aunt Season and opened their gifts from the cousin exchange.  Hayden got more legos and was very happy.  He built them all by himself too.  Amelia got a furr real cat and loves it.  She talks to and plays with it a lot.

Mike and I keep our gifts low key.  Just small stocking things.  We go out after Christmas and get some good deals.  Mike got an Xbox1.  I got some clothes and things to decorate the house.

Lots of cookies were eaten during the hoildays


We hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas.

Christmas Eve 2014

 

We had a nice Christmas.

A few days before, we built our gingerbread houses from Grandma Barb.

Hayden's was a mickey house.

Amelia's was a frozen castle.

On Christmas Eve we all headed to Hillary's house.  All of the cousins had a blast playing together.
They got along great.

They took turns opening their gifts.  They were spoiled with bags of gifts from Grandma and then more gifts from all their Aunts and Uncles.

John was first to open the gifts. 

His facial expressions were so funny.  He was very excited about his science gifts and his light saber.

Hayden loves playing with John. 

Kennedy was next.

She got a new kitchen for her American girl doll.  You can tell by her face she was excited.

Hayden went next.

He got tons of great stuff.  He got a cross bow dart gun, star wars stuff, a light moving car, DS games, and so much more.

Amelia was after Hayden.

She opened everything and exclaimed, "I always wanted this."  Ha ha.  She really did love every gift.  She got art stuff, big dora things, ariel legos, frozen dolls and their huge castle and so much more.

Brady was last and waited very patiently.  He is such a ham.

Brady got lots of super hero figures and other things.  He played with them all night.

After presents we ate dinner and took a family photo outside.  It was so nice out.

We also got one with all of the cousins all together.  Next year there will be one more with Quinn and Matt's little girl.