This year we had a houseful of people for the first time for Christmas, so Blake and Ashlyn slept in our room for the week, which made it REALLY easy to get up at "o-dark-thirty" Christmas morning. Just like when we were kids us adults went downstairs to turn on the lights and Christmas music and "Ooo and ahh" over what Santa brought as the kids waited very impatiently to come downstairs.
Blake and Ashlyn must have been on Santa's Good List this year, because he brought Blake an iPod Touch he has been REALLY wanting and Ashlyn an mP3 player that she has been talking about since this summer. They were VERY excited and have been jamming all day since - so nice for them to have ear buds so we don't have to have Justin Bieber or Carly Rae Jepsen stuck in our heads all day.
We were excited for aunts, uncles, cousins and Grandma and Grandpa visit for Christmas - it had been a LONG time since we've had anybody with us for the holidays since we were in Georgia - but the kids quickly realized that it slowed down their ability to open presents...we have the one person at a time rule to opening presents.
All the kids got a little impatient with Mason and his method of opening gifts - one tiny piece of paper at a time, but it was so cute! He would get excited about whatever was in it before he even could tell what it was.
Eventually we made it through all the gifts that were under the tree and then it was a huge undertaking to say the least to get it all cleaned up and organized.
Everybody had to try their hand out at our new Just Dance 4 and Disney Dance games throughout the day...
...and of course no Christmas is complete without playing games... even Rick and Dad put a smile on their faces to play one day a year. We got a handful of new games as gifts and it was fun to have a crowd to try them out with.
Thanks everybody for coming and cramming into our little house to help us celebrate the Christmas Season!
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