Christmas Morning Part 2

 After we finished with Santa gifts, we bundled up and headed over to Nonnie & Poppy's house to open presents.  Mom had breakfast ready...homemade cinnamon rolls, party pizzas, and sausage balls.  Our traditional Christmas breakfast!!  Then it was on to opening....

Beau and Evan were both CRAZY!!!  Evan was tossing gifts everywhere and Beau was opening everything he could get his hands on:)

Blake got supplies for his aquarium.

 Craziness!!

 Blake also got a framed pic of him on the beach in a Kuk Sool Won stance.  Pretty cool!

 Carly was right in the middle of it all!

 Georgia wanted to be in the middle of it, but wasn't really crazy about opening her own presents.

 Beau's Thomas train carrier...not exactly sure why I am posing with it?

 Blake and Evan got The Hobbit Legos from Kyle & Amy!

 Beau and his Glo Doodle Tent from Kyle & Amy.

 I finally got Georgia to be happy in my lap for a little bit:)

 Blake got his hat from Nonnie and Poppy.  He LOVES it!

 Proof that Amy was there;)

 The boys opening their group gift from Nonnie & Poppy.....tickets to the Dixie Stampede!!

 More opening action!

 Travis's gift from me:)  It's a tradition that I give him the annual Christmas Vacation ornament!!  We gave each other our upcoming trip to Cancun, so we didn't actually open any gifts from each other except this one!

 The BEST gift Beau got was this "screw board" that my mom and dad made for him.  It has a million different screws stuff and a little box attached to put the screws in when he unscrews them.  He also got a little tool pouch and some different screw drivers and wrenches.  LITTLE BOY HEAVEN!!!

 He wouldn't stop!!

 He had every last screw unscrewed in NO time!

 Couldn't have gottem a more perfect gift!!  Now, let's hope this is a big enough distraction to keep him from dis-assembling everything else in our house!!

 Nonnie opening her gift from Poppy....

 A new bike and helmet!!!

 Still at it!

 He was serious:)

 A view of everyone.  See, Kyle and Poppy were there! (except Travis, sometimes it stinks to be the photographer:(

 I just love this.  Everyone together on Christmas!!

 And a few hours later, it started snowing!!!  And it snowed A LOT!!! Like 5-6 inches!!  What a great Christmas surprise!!  After we watched our annual viewing of Christmas Vacation we headed home and this was what we saw!!  Our pretty lights in the snow!! LOVE!!!

We had an absolutely wonderful day.  No one ever got out of their pajamas.  We just laid around, ate, played, and watched movies.  Perfect family day!!!

Christmas Morning Part 1

 Santa came!!!  Yay!  Beau got a new bike, a helicopter, and some Thomas PJ's.  Evan got a new airsoft gun and pellets.  Blake got some headphones and a sifter for his metal detector and a book about "buried treasure". 

 Evan was up SUPER early and we made him go back to bed several times:)  We finally got up and woke Beau and Blake up (it was a Christmas miracle)!!!  Santa always leaves stockings outside of the boy's bedrooms.

 Evan loving his foam body wash.

 Blake's ornament is a marshmallow snowman and it says "Scientists research s'more".  Cute!

 Beau wasn't quite awake yet:)

 Blake emptied his stocking very methodically!

 Beau wanted to eat every piece of candy he took out!  He also emptied his one thing at a time.

 Evan, on the other hand, dumped his in a pile!

 A slinky!!

 Blake and his stash!  The boys both got colored ipod chargers and cords.  No more stealing mine!!

 Evan was excited about Beau's helicopter:)

 The "Snickaloaf" was a HUGE hit!!!!  Thanks to Tim Hawkins my boys are obsessed!

 Blake checking out his book.

 Yes, you love it!

 Beau and his big boy bike!! He was so surprised!! He LOVED it!!

Three happy boys! 

Ready to head over to Nonnie & Poppy's to open presents!!

Christmas Eve

 On Christmas Eve we had NaNa, PaPa, and Granny over for lunch.  We had potato soup and a big sub sandwich.  We also had some sausage balls and party pizzas.  Yum!  I can't believe I didn't take one single picture?!?

On Christmas Eve evening our tradition has always been to go to Candlelight Christmas Eve service as a family.  We had lots of family there this year!!

Beau ready to go in!

 Kyle and Amy were here from Cheyenne so Nonnie and Poppy had their hands full!

 LOVE this!!

 A view of our crew.  All 5 of us, NaNa, PaPa, Tad, Jayme, Nonnie, Poppy, Kyle, Amy, Georgia, and Judy.  I loved having all of our family together!

 Nonnie, Georgia, and Kyle

 Nonnie fixed an amazing dinner for us!!  Prime rib, asparagus, spinach mashed potatoes, homemade rolls, and pecan pie and coconut sour cream pound cake for dessert!!

We used GaGa and Dessa's china.  Very special and so beautiful!

 Georgia had to get comfy and put on her Darth Vader slippers.  Only my brother's child;)

 Beau and Georgia were SO much fun!  They are finally old enough to "play'.  Makes me so sad she isn't here all the time.  They had fun!!

 After dinner we went home to get ready for bed.  My sweeties ready for bed!  We all sat down on the couch together and Travis read the Christmas story to us out of Luke.  As fun as Santa is, we wanted to make sure everyone remembered why we were celebrating!!!

 Milk & brookies for Santa.  Beau really didn't get why he couldn't just eat them!

We had a wonderful day with family.  Ready to wake up and do it all over again!!!