I got the camera ready and we let the kids go. Ethan is the funniest with his reactions. He got a Lego kit from Santa and an MP3 player. Courtney got a new bike (now she doesn't have to use Ethan's old one). They also got a Wii Play game for the two of them. They were both pretty happy with what Santa brought. Bryan got a couple of new pillows (but since he can only use one, I get to use the other one, sneaky Santa!) and we got an old fashioned popcorn popper as a family.
Here is the giant cookie Ethan wanted to make for Santa. Santa couldn't eat much of it but we did find out that Santa likes to dunk his cookies in his milk (there were crumbs on the bottom of the mug).
Courtney couldn't wait to try out her bike so here she is in the backyard in her pjs.
She was really good at riding it right off so she moved to the front yard to try it out:
I don't have any pictures of Ethan that aren't blurry because he kept jumping up and down all morning long. So here is one of him rejoicing after seeing his Lego from Santa.
After the kids looked at their Santa loot, we had them eat an orange (or a banana because they aren't huge fans of oranges) then we started opening presents. They got a lot of fun stuff and were very happy with their loot this Christmas.
We then made breakfast (bacon, eggs, orange rolls, cinnamon rolls, and orange juice). After cleaning up and playing with our toys for a while, we got ready for Church. As we drove up to the Church we were about 15 minute early and there were hardly any cars there. But by the time the Sacrament was over it was filled and the overflow had to be opened. It was nice to have Christmas on Sunday because it really reminded us why we celebrate. The talks were really well done and the singing was nice.
After Sacrament Meeting, we went home and began making dinner. My parents and sister were coming over and then round 2 of gifts would begin. We had ham, funeral potatoes, baked potatoes (because Bryan doesn't like funeral potatoes), rolls, salad, fruit salad and green beans. It was yummy!
When we had dinner cleaned up a bit (leftovers were put away), we decided the kids had been patient long enough and we opened more gifts. They got rollerblades, more games, magazines and some other things. It was fun and they were super excited again.
It was a good day!!
Here is a video of the morning. It gets a bit boring after 50 seconds because the kids just look at their stuff but before that you can see Ethan's hilarious reaction to his Legos.
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