Christmas at Our House

We celebrated Christmas morning at our house on Christmas Eve morning.  Luckily, once again Santa was very accommodating and agreed to deliver our gifts one morning early.  I don't actually think the kids knew what day it was - they were just excited to have presents to open in the morning.

Our tree on Christmas morning

The other side of the Christmas tree

Cam and Leah waiting on the steps for Daddy to go down and turn on the Christmas lights and get the camera ready.  They were so sweet and excited!

Pretty excited to see what Santa left them!

They started out by digging into their stockings

In their stockings, both kids got stickers, shovels, chocolates, KinderSurprise eggs,  tattoos and some other fun little things.  They both really liked everything that they got in there.

One of their favorite gifts - a balloon animal kit, complete with balloons, a pump and a book to tell you how to make the balloon animals.

The kids took turns wearing the Mickey santa hat

One of their favorite gifts from Mama and Daddy were Bruins jerseys.  Here is Leah modeling hers.

Opening a gift with Mama

Leah's gift from Cameron - a Disney fairy set.  She loved it!

The aftermath of Christmas on our family room.   It was quite a mess!

We did a really bad job taking pictures during our Christmas this year!  We normally take one with each of us and our gift pile, or at least a family picture.  We ended up taking a family picture a few days later - I'll post that another time.

Leah's big present was a bike (a Strider - no pedals).  She also got some princess stuff, DVDs, a Wii game, books, her own Tag reader, some Trios and other fun stuff.  Cameron's big gift was a huge Lego city set.  Leah got him a really neat remote control race car that drives on the wall. He also got some books, DVDs, HexBugs, other small lego sets, games, Transformers and other toys. 

My big gift from was a beautiful file cabinet that Tim built.  It looks like a nice piece of furniture but inside it has lots of file cabinet space.  It is really perfect, exactly what we needed.  And it makes it so much more special because Tim made it himself.  He was quite the craftsman this year, also making me a little pouch that holds crayons to put in my purse - before that I was always using a plastic bag that would rip!  Tim's gifts were a hand truck, tall step stool, some clothes, scotch, a game, some DVDs and other things.

We had a special breakfast of cinnamon buns, eggs and fruit - all some of the kids favorites.  We spent the morning playing with Christmas gifts and then drove up to Rochester for our next Christmas!