Christmas Morning

Oh, what a WONDERFUL Christmas morning we had in 2013.  For the first time since Chris and I have been married, we spent Christmas at our house!  While we have LOVED every Christmas we've spent at Mema and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa's house, there is something great about waking up Christmas morning in your own house.  It's even more special with little ones in the house!  We were lucky enough to have Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Amy come down and celebrate with us!  I also have to say, I was very excited to plan Christmas dinner, and we had WAY too much food! (and we somehow managed to spend all our time eating the food and taking zero pictures of it! 

We started a new idea this year.   Sutton and Sophie had to clean out all their old toys and give them to Santa before he left them new toys!  Santa would clean and fix them up to give to other little boys and girls. (This year, Sutton and Daddy delivered them a local shelter where they had little kids that would have a Christmas because of them!)  On Christmas Eve, the kids put out "Santa Sacks" for Santa to put all their presents in.  (Mommy and Daddy were SO glad we weren't up wrapping all those gifts!)  I made the sacks, and we loved how they turned out!  The bags have a place for Santa to check if Sutton and Sophie have been, "Really Nice, Nice or Naught"  Of couse, he said they had been "really nice".  And even signed them!

Mommy finally got to open the BIG present from Daddy.  It is a Tower Garden, check it out here: https://www.towergarden.com/.  A friend of mine has one, and I  have wanted something like it for a while!  I can't wait to start growing some food for our kitchen!  

After opening stockings from Santa and presents from Aunt Amy, Uncle David, Aunt Kristen, James, Ethan and Faith, and Uncle Greg, Aunt Shilo, Cade and Coco, (oh how they LOVED all those gifts!) it was time to see what Santa brought

Sutton had been wanting this turck and crane since before his birthday.  He was so happy to get it!  Patience pays off!

This logging truck had also been (mostly) patiently waited for!  Seeing his happy face was wonderful!

"A princess coloring book, I LOVE IT!" says Sophie!

Sophie made us laugh as she would go inside her Santa Sack to find another present! 

"Lambie, I LOVE IT!" 

(It's so sweet, the way she said she loved all of her gifts!)

Yeah, Santa brought Sutton some new clothes!  He needed some!

Back in to find another gift!

Mommy made Sutton, Sophie and Cousin Hope these little rag dolls!  I enjoyed every minute of making them, but they were VERY time consuming!  Seeing the look on Sophie's face when she pulled hers out, PRICELESS!

This is a fun game, it spins these little disks and they fly up in the air.  You try to catch them.  We've all spent time trying to master it!

There's still more in there????

Sutton found the Batman rag doll I made him, after going inside his sack!

Ladybug slippers.  This little girl likes ladybugs ALMOST as much as Aunt Amy!

Sutton Got Monkey slippers!

A microphone for our little lady!  She sings so beautifully!

Oh my, how I love your little girl.  Seeing you happy makes me happy!

Singing a song while waiting for Christmas dinner!  (It took us so long to make it, I think we put Grandpa to sleep!)

Still waiting for dinner, so we will play with the playdough we got!

Sophie and Sutton were lucky to have Grandpa there to get all the playdough out of the cans!  It did not want to come out!

Wow, what a GREAT Christmas.  We are looking forward to many many more together!