Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

Merry late Christmas. This year took me a while to get back in the swing of things after the Holidays. Hence, the Christmas post of 2010 is being posted half way through January 2011.

Christmas Eve festivities!

Included the usual get together at Grammy's house.

We swapped our family gifts, and the kids had a blast "helping" opening presents, or playing with the gifts they received. Almost everyone was here! But we missed Ky and Mike and Sky who couldn't come because Kylie was close to due with tiny soon to be born Harper. :)

New clothing always brings out the inner model in Uncle Nick.

Crew kept following Grandpa and trying to drink his drinks and eat his food.

He even got a shoulder ride!

No fair! Next year it's my turn Dad! ;)

Christmas Morning!

We slept in until almost 6:00 AM this year!

Laney freaked out with EVERY present she opened.

Giant eyes and opened mouth for each and every one.

We probably could have just given her toys she already had

and she would have acted just as excited.

The most popular gift 2010, SQUEANKIES.

Even Josh played with them.

Crew boy slept in until about 7:30. When he woke up to chaos and presents, he joined in the fun immediately. He even knew that this car was for him!

Laney had asked for a phone, computer and a camera.

She got a leapster explorer and I think she was pleased.

Christmas night, my family came over. Since Nick will be turning 16 this year, he took a test drive in Crew's car.

Crew didn't like it.

I decided to try out long hair for a few minutes.

(Courtesy of Alex's clip-in hair extensions)

Laney tried it too!

And got embarrassed when I took pictures. :)

After everyone was gone...this is what was left downstairs.

A big mess and tired people.

(Laney is peaking one eye at everyone, I love it).

Laney's new best friend.

I am not sure if we have narrowed her name down yet...

It is either Jewels 2 (Kadie's is Jewels), Cynthia, or Flowerly.

Christmas Morning

Christmas Morning was so much fun.  I just love how the girls hair is all messed up, and they are rubbing their eyes like what they see isn't really there.

Josh and I thought for sure that the girls would be up around 5:30 or 6:00.  So at 6:20 I shot up in bed!  Josh said "what"? and I looked at the clock and said "OH, it is 6:20, the girls slept in a little."  Then I laid back down just in time to see Kadie wander past our bedroom.

Moments later she was at the bedside shaking us telling us Santa had come.

We had a hard time waking Laney up.  We sat her up in bed, and she fell over.  We rolled her onto her back and she rolled back onto her tummy.  But there was no stopping Kadie from getting things rolling.  We finally carried Laney out to the family room, and she woke up when she heard how excited Kadie was. 

Only one melt down from Laney about the last present being Kadie's to unwrap.  

We will remember that next year. :)

Christmas Eve

Whenever we are in town, we start our Holiday Celebrations Christmas Eve with my family for the sibling gift exchange.  For the past couple of years though...it has turned into the open everything from each other exchange.  I think Kadie likes it that way. :)

We made lots and lots of treats and decorated sugar cookies.  (And a big giant sprinkle mess - sorry mom).  In the end Alex won the contest of best cookie because she put "presents" under her cookie tree.  First place Alex!

We all had fun opening gifts from each other.  Nick and Josh started a nurf gun war later that night with their findings.  I took lots of pictures with my new lens covers.  Josh is prepared now to cook food on a propane grill when we go camping and the girls played with a new train set!

Grammy got a new knife set and a gift card to a great restaurant...and Papa G got some space heaters!!!

Laney ended with night like usual with no pants and playing with Duke. :)

It was a very Merry Christmas Eve!