Merry Christmas!

Christmas Morning is always my favorite time with the kids!  Well...unless it is 5:40 am and you have an 8-year old tapping you on the shoulder when you are sound asleep.  She was ready to get up!  However, I convinced her that we needed to wait until 6:15, so at 6:15 sharp she was back tapping me on the shoulder.  I went to wake Owen up and we the madness began!  They were so excited about the fun gifts that Santa had left for them.  Owen's favorite was his Nerf guns and Harper's was her Kindle reader.  We all checked our stockings and I was pleased to find the perfume I had been wanting.  Richard told me that Harper had written a note to Sneaky (our elf) asking him to bring it to me for Christmas...and he did!!  Thank you Santa!

After we played with our toys and waited for the sun to come up, we headed over to Grandma and Boppy's for Christmas Morning breakfast.  It has to be our yummiest tradition!

We ate and ate and ate...and then we opened presents!  Again, so fun to watch everyone open the presents that the kids picked out for them.  Harper is way better at giving appropriate (non-amusing gifts) now, but Owen is at the best stage.  Owen gave Grandma a cute dip spreader and dish, he gave Boppy a #1 Grandpa money clip, Cole got two gifts...a Thunder Sticker and a Coffee Mug with a beautiful Christmas scene on it.  Hazen was the proud recipient of a really cool light up centipede and a bottle of $1 pink baby lotion.  But the best gift of all was for Aunt Melanie...a beautiful bracelet, engraved with #1 Grandma that Owen purchased at the Santa Shop at school.  Priceless!!!!

We spent ALL of Christmas Day at my parents with all of our family...even Cindy and Tony, along with Grandma Marks and Janet stopped by.  It was a very relaxing, just the way I like it, Christmas!!!