Christmas...

With clear roads and sunshine we traveled up to Boise this year for Christmas. We were all ready to get away for a bit!

On Christmas Eve my brother and his family came over for fun, pizza and a few presents.

The kids played inside and out; riding bikes, playing cars, finding Waldo and games....

 Then we brought out the gingerbread to decorate, we needed a treat for Santa!

 After dinner we opened up a few presents as we wouldn't see the kids on Christmas day...

After reading "The Night Before Christmas" the boys snuggled into bed and fell asleep pretty quickly. 

All the elves went to work and before we knew it, our job was done!

 Stockings that were hung...

 Christmas exploded around the tree...

 That Christmas tree glow I love to see....

Tyler slept pretty well, Cody was up somewhere around 3am and never really went back to sleep. They were under strict orders that we were not to be woken up until 6am. So they did, right on the dot!

Santa came!

 Wonder....

 Everything he opened was "just what I wanted for Christmas!"

 Thanks to new Leapsters, we lost them (well, mostly Cody) for the rest of the day.

We had a wonderful turkey dinner with all our favorites and ended the night with some pumpkin pie and apple crisp. I'm pretty sure we stayed full all week!

 

 Once we made our way home to CA, we had Christmas with Keith's side of the family.

The boys made out like bandits, as they usually do!  Games galore!  We definitely had a Merry Christmas.