Christmas Morning~2011



Laurel, Savannah and Landon came running to our room around 6:30a.m.  Oh my goodness, they were so excited!  "Get Up!"  "Can we go see if Santa came?" 

When I was growing up, all of us would run into mom and dad's room and say the same things and dad would always say, "let me go see if Santa came."  We would all wait in the hallway while he went to "check things out" and then he would tell us when we could come in. 
I guess we like putting our children through the same torture, because we do this in our family.  Seth always goes into the living room, gets the camcorder ready, turns on Christmas music, and turns on the fire. 
Landon just did not get why he was being held captive in the room!

He got over it real quick and started figuring out what all this Santa talk had been about!

He loves Choo-Choo trains!

But I have to tell you, he loves his first dirtbike even more!  He rode that dirtbike all over everyone and everything.
Sawyer, just let him.
He is the best little baby.

Savannah and Laurel just kept saying over and over, "this is the best Christmas ever." 

I was going to start a tradition this year where I let the kids go to the dollar tree and pick out a gift for the others.  But a few weeks before Christmas, Laurel and Savannah started sneaking gift bags and were spending a lot of time behind closed doors making things.  They came out with gift bags of presents they had made for everyone on Christmas morning.

Daddy's gift was a sweet card and some chocolate, left over from their parties at school.

They know just what to get daddy.

I also think this was the best Christmas ever.  I loved that Christmas fell on a Sunday.  It was fun opening gifts but then it was great that we were able to spend part of the day at church learning more about Jesus Christ.