Christmas

Well, here is the long overdue post documenting Christmas 2013!  This year marked the first year we had Christmas in our own home!  It was a lot of fun, but we've decided it is a lot of work as well! It's a lot easier when your mom is taking care of having everything just so. :)  But it was fun to be able to celebrate here.

We had a early Christmas celebration with Michael and Sarah, and had a lot of fun singing Christmas carols together.  They gave us this Jenga game, which the boys love, and have renamed "Timber."  Alan could never remember the name, so Timber pretty much took over.

Our little Santa elf on Christmas Eve!

Here we are getting ready for our Christmas Eve dinner.  It was so fun to have Grandma and Grandpa Robertson with us that night and the next morning!

After the kids were in bed, the evening was spent assembling these blocks and other toys, wrapping last minute gifts, and finishing stockings.  We have a bit of an Angry Birds Star Wars obsession around here, and thought these little plushes and blocks would be fun for the boys.  On Christmas morning when Alan walked out he immediately yelled, "Yes!  Just what I've always wanted!" and without missing beat, picked up Chewbacca and threw him at the blocks.  It was pretty funny.

Here is our tree with entirely too many gifts.

Chillin in our bed before we went out to open gifts.  It had been a long night.  James had an ear infection. At least it was better than last year.  But still, a very long night.

The slinky was a hit.  Pretty sure we could have stopped after that with James.  We had to keep bribing him to open more gifts.  He loved each one so much he wanted to stop and play and had no interest in opening any more gifts.

And the obsession continues. He loved about everything he got.

Lucy took a nap during the middle of the present opening, and finished opening her gifts at Grandma and Grandpa Robertson's house after Christmas dinner that evening.

We had a wonderful Christmas and are so very blessed.  It was so fun to be able to still be with family, even though we were at our own place.  We are especially grateful for our Savior and this special time of love and giving!