Christmas Eve

Me opening a gift from my mom - a decorative post with seasonal interchangeable signs.

Parker with all his stuff including: a gun, robot, tool bench, church clothes & shoes, new jammies and Christmas book, new shirt/pants, toy story 8 in 1 game set, Iron Man ornament, 2 new movies, double ended light saber, 2 lego sets, a magnetic toy set and a Sword and Sheild that Grandpa made for him.

Me with everything I got including: a Gift Certificate for a pedicure, winter snow boots, candle warmer with 2 different scents, 3 scrapbook binders, sheet protectors, tall brown boots, gift card to scrapbook store, scrapbook set with paper/album/pens/scissors/embelishements, seasonal post, winnie the pooh ornament, 2 scrapbook paper packs, amazon gift card, 6ft table, Bath and Body lotions, Bamboo Pampered Chef salad bowl and tongs and a set of lids for some bowls I have.
Parker with his gun

Paige with her Pink Barbie Car and Dora Microphone

Paige with all her stuff including: New jammies and christmas book, dora backpack, dora doll, dora microphone, dress up clothes and container to put them in, Belle barbie, swim suit barbie, 2 sets of Barbie clothes, salon chair and accessories, 3 pair of shoes (pink, brown, black), 3 new dresses, lady bug pillow pet, cinderella ornament, 2 new movies.

Matt with his loot: Steaks, microfiber garage towels, golf balls, golfing snowman ornament, gift cards to cal-ranch, itunes, 5 guys, the movies, a harley shirt, ipod nano, and a relica of the new step bars he will be getting for his truck-they were on back order. He alson got a grinder and a shelf for the garage.

Grandpa and his new Harley stuff

Paige trying out some of her new dress up clothes

Big Brother opening some gifts



Little Sister opening gifts

The living room before we began opening gifts

We have a tradition of going to my parents on Christmas Eve and playing games, having dinner, and opening a few presents. This year my Sister only had her step-son on Christmas Eve so we opted to do the whole celebration that evening. We got together about 3:00 and played on the wii for about and hour. Then we had a great dinner of Prime Rib, baked potatoes, olive garden salad and rolls. For dessert we had cheesecake. It was delicious and hit the spot. After dinner and cleanup we gathered together and the kids helped sort out Christmas gifts into piles. It seemed like it took us forever to divvy out all the gifts. We each had a substantial pile when we were ready to begin. My kids knew exactly what to do and both of them immediately got started unwrapping. Little Sister was on a roll, she opened her first gift, looked at it and got excited for a second then moved right on to the next gift. She just would unwrap a gift, put it in her pile and move to the next gift. So I didn't get to see a lot of what everyone else was opening because I was helping her. It was a little chaotic, but everyone got spoiled and had a good time. Big Brother was especially excited when he opened a gift from Grandpa that was an air soft BB gun! After that gift he didn't seem to care what else he got, he stopped opening and began assembling his gun, getting in ready to shoot.(it makes a sound when he pulls the trigger and I don't think he even knows it is a real gun, we will keep that a secret for a while until he is bigger!) He did manage to unwrap a robot from my mom and he was pretty excited about that as well and took time to open that box and play with the robot before opening any other gifts.

I tried to get a picture of us all with everything we got, but it didn't happen. There was too much going on way too many fun new things to play with. We had a good night and enjoyed the time spent with our family. Ready for the next day. The kids were professional unwrappers by now!!