Merry Christmas =)

We told the kids not to wake us until after 7:00 am. They both slept in the playroom on the futon =) We went to a candlelight communion and then got to sleep after 11:00 pm. The kids say they got up at 6:00 am, but they didn't come get us until 7:30 am (yea!). They opened stocking suffers while I baked some carmel rolls. We opened all of the gifts and then had our traditional Egg Puff, a recipe from Mike's mom that we have every year. We still managed to get dressed and out of the house in time for church.

We always try to wait to put out the presents until the kids are already asleep, so when they come down Christmas morning everything is out. I always try to get one picture of the tree with all the gifts, before anything is opened.

Once the stockings are full we always lay them out on the couch.

Opening stocking stuffers.


We get the kids calendars every year, Mike got Ryan this Boeing one from work, Amber got a kitten one (she loves cats).

Ryan uses his blanket as a pillow . . . don't know why, but wanted him to have a super soft blanket since I can't seem to break him of this habit.

We got dad some hot sauce that has an outhouse for a box. Mike tried some on his eggs this morning and said it was HOT! Guess that explains the outhouse (ha ha)

Ryan wanted this guy so bad he hid him on the back of the shelf and then went back to the store and tried to talk them into putting him on hold until after Christmas when he had some Christmas money. But the guy was gone when he went back (I wonder why - ha ha)

Amber got some cute little animals that make noise, a cat and a monkey that make noise (from O'ma and O'pa)

Amber got two adorable scarf's from Randy,Pam, Lauren & Chris. They even went perfectly with the top she had on =)
Ryan got a gift card, and we love the hand made thank you cards from Aunt Pam, even the gift tags are cool! Amber held her's up when I was taking this picture of Ryan - ha ha, it ended up perfectly in the bottom corner =) Love the candle too, Ryan kept saying "this box smells really nice".

Ryan and Amber each got Mike a pair of jeans and a top. Ryan and Amber picked out the tops, I got the jeans.


Ryan's big gift this year, from O'ma and O'pa, a 3DS. He will be using his Christmas money to buy 3DS games =)
Amber's big gift this year, from O'ma and O'pa, an ipod touch . . . well, I got it used off Amazon, but it is in perfect condition. I already loaded 12 hours of music, two free video's, an app so she can read books (like a kindle) and of course the game angry birds (among other things - hee hee)
We went to church for a Christmas service with our church family! The kids had fun dipping fruit into their punch =) It was neat to see everyone, usually we are just home alone all Christmas day, I really liked having Christmas on a Sunday this year!


Merry Christmas to you all! We have definitely had a blessed Christmas this year!