Sunday, January 11, 2009

Christmas Morning

So fun- I love Christmas mornings.... ours may have started early, but it was great! And it was fabulous having the Shelby's here to share it with us.
All the cute kids (minus Caleb) in their new jammies waiting to come downstairs.
Santa was good to us this year- EVERYONE was spoiled rotten- nice!
Here is the traditional shots of the Christmas tree as it looks before we all annihilate everything underneath it.Apparently I didn't get a good pic of it (don't know why) but Chris and T were cute because Chris got Superman PJ's and TJ got Batman PJ's and they only got out of them all week when we had to (ie going to Tucano's for lunch, and TJ's interview). But they were excited about them.It was KILLING the kids that Zach kept coming downstairs (when they all understood the rule to stay upstairs until we were ready)- that is also why our morning started very early- about 5:00 am, the kids were FREAKING out because Zach had gone downstairs and gotten into some of the stockings... OOPS! So we were all up and getting started by 6:00 am, pretty good considering they were all up about 4:30 am, YIKES!
Here are the kids watching and (patiently?) waiting for us to get everything ready from our bridge.
This was probably Zach's favorite Christmas toy- he now carries them everywhere, and even wants to sleep with this Toy Story set. Good job "Santa!!"

Hannah... so fun to have the cousins together.
Adam is such a great kid- he cracks me up!
TJ was doing pretty well considering he hadn't slept much- they drove all night to arrive at about 6:00 am on Christmas Eve, and then Caleb kept them up all night while they were here.
Give me more, give me more- Hannah was a good sport when she didn't have quite as much to open since she had already had two Christmas's with her Grandma and Grandpas.
Abigail was happy to get a new Nintendo DS, just like Isabelle. But they all played with the Nerf dart guns all week- big hit!
Claire--- got a new bike, and if it ever stops snowing, we'll teach her how to ride it ;)
It was an early, and fun morning of family, fun, and of course presents galore!