Christmas 2014

I love Christmas! I love the family time. I love the kid's excitement. I love the chance to just play all day with them. I love that no one knocks on our door. I love that the only phone calls are from family.  I love that we can stay in our jammies as long as we want to. I love having Dan all to ourselves! The kids spoiled us that morning after playing so hard the night before and didn't wake us up till 7:45. We woke up to little feet running to the tree and then running back to our room. I swear they checked the tree for a week before Christmas every morning in hopes that it would come a little early. Well, they were beyond themselves excited. It took everything they had to use the restroom and wait a few minutes for their sister to wake up and for mom and dad to get out of bed! We were so mean and made them wait a few minutes longer as we read the Christmas story from Luke and talked about what Christmas was really about. Then we took turns opening presents until they were all gone. The kids were bouncing excited not only for their own, but for everyone else's! Makayla started off strong, but ended up just wanting to play with the opened ones more than opening more! So we helped her at the end!

 After presents we had some traditional cinnamon rolls. I was too lazy and tired to make homeade rolls this year!

 We were lucky enough to wake up to our first real snow this year. The kids were anxious to go out and play. Somehow Makayla was the most anxious and went to shovel the walks with dad before they all went out to play in it! She cries every time you make her come back inside. She loves the snow!

 The boys jumped right into their toys. They spent all morning playing and almost 2 hours building their new Lego sets they asked Santa for. They worked hard and both did them with a tiny bit of help every now and then.

 After their Lego's they bundled up and headed out to build a snowman. Too bad the snow was not super packable yet, so they just ended up making a tiny one!
Makayla copying the boys when they made snow angels!

 Our little snowman!

 This guy is just taking a nap in the snow.

 Oh, I just love these guys!

 Hugs before going inside.

We had a relaxing day of watching the Grinch, doing a puzzle, playing new games, and just playing playing playing. It was a very Merry Christmas!