Christmas!

**Side note: The craft blog is now open for all to see, enjoy!

We had such a wonderful Christmas! So much so it's taken a few days to sort it all out, go through pictures and post a little blurb.

We started the night before by getting the tables set and ready for breakfast.

Then we headed outside to sprinkle the reindeer food on the lawn.

After this we read a couple of Christmas stories and sent the little ones to bed. They were so excited for Santa to come! Tyler went to sleep pretty quickly but poor Cody just couldn't handle it. Not sure when he actually fell asleep, but he was up at 2, 2:30, 3, 4ish, then for good a bit before 6. Just Too Exciting!

So I finally got out of bed at 6am, had to get the cider started for breakfast. I made them go back and get Keith, he was awake, but waiting for his little buddies to "wake" him.

Santa Came!

Pulling down the stockings...

The dump, although I miss the full arm reach in from last year.

They were finally able to open up their big present, scooters!

Cody with his new camera...

Tyler with his...

The "WHOA" face that was present most the morning...

Yay! A track like big Cody's!

And this is where my camera died, like really died for good. After doing the mad dash around everywhere to find Keith's, only to find the battery was dead. I busted out my camera for a few more while it was charging.

Playing with their new remote control cars...




Playing with the new scooters.

Cody's loot, Ty's pile is much of the same...

Keith's family and Eli's Mum Barbara came over for a breakfast of pull-aparts, eggs and sausage. The boy were excited to show off all their new things and we were excited to not have to rush out of the house.
After breakfast we packed up and headed to Keith's family's house to open more presents.


This was pretty much it for my picture taking for the day, little disappointing. We headed home after playing for a while and took some much needed naps before traveling back over for dinner. It was a full day, but very mellow and lovely.

What about the gifts you say, the big one we received was the Wii. So Excited! We finally busted it out on Sat and played a round of bowling before bed.




We also received some lovely gift cards and put some of it towards a Wii Fit, Active and a couple of new games. So excited to put this thing through it's paces!


I'm working on getting a slide show together of the boy's picture from their cameras and I'll post it soon. Might have to start a blog for them, they are just taking too many picture for me to post all over mine.