Christmas Day

For the past few years, Santa had brought our kiddos treasures in a sack for each of them. Since Lyla was here this year, Santa left her things in a sack too!I thought that our kids would wake up at the crack of dawn this year, but I was surprised that when I heard them start to stir it was already 7:30! Here they are anxiously waiting to run downstairs and dive in! I love their first thing in the morning looks =)

Christmas morning used to go by so fast for us. We would go through stockings and open up presents and be done in like 45 min. We decided we wanted things to take longer, and to be able to enjoy every moment, so first the kiddos looked through their stockings and Santa Sacks....

Lyla got a lot of really cute and unique toys.......

Tori asked for Go Go my walking pup....

Levi asked for more Hex bugs and a battle zhu zhu pet game....

And Alexis finally got the sewing machine she has been dreaming of =)

We can't forget the grownups!

this is the only picture I got of AJ opening his stocking. He doesn't look to excited about those starbursts, but he was!

No matter how old you get, Christmas morning is always so much fun =)

After that, AJ went to work on making us a delicious breakfast. We had Belgium waffles, homemade hash browns, eggs, and sausage. It was so yummy! While breakfast cooked, the girls played a new ds game they got in their stocking.

Brandon's parents arrived right about breakfast time. They have never been over on Christmas morning, so it was so fun to have them there!

After breakfast we started opening presents.....

These next two pictures of Lyla are so precious! The first one is of her with Tori's gogo pup. Lyla loved it so much! The second one is of Lyla snuggling with her new pillow pet. What a sweetheart =)

We actually got to watch Nana and Papa open the gifts we gave them this year. We usually just put them under their tree for them to open Christmas morning. But since they were coming to our house, we left them here so they could open them with us!

Here is Cindy with her "fake wedding ring" from AJ. Check out her blog for the full story. When she opened it up she exclaimed, "I've been wanting a fake wedding ring!" It was hilarious =)

All of our kids really wanted snuggies this year......

We got done around 1 (i think) so we just relaxed a little, and then headed over to my mom and dad's house, like we do every Christmas afternoon. We had so much fun hanging out with family there. We had a yummy dinner, opened up more presents, and then hung out and played games. Christmas is always so much fun when you are with the ones you love. We were so sad the Fords weren't there =( It turns out that David didn't even get called in on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, so they could have stayed after all! What a bummer!!

I can't beleive another Christmas has come and gone! We had a wonderful whirl wind of a couple iof weeks, with the wedding and then Christmas. It was so much fun being around famiy daily for so long. I love family!!