Christmas 2009

Everyone Sporting their new Christmas Jammies!

Then it was time to turn on the Yule Log Channel and open up some presents.  The kids woke up at 7 (which is late) and checked to see if Santa came...how do we know?  He filled the stockings!  Santa only fills our stockings, because Nathan didn't want Santa to get credit for our presents! Hahaha.

I will just share with you the highlights of our wonderful Christmas.

The kids opened up a few things that were the same...

 Because in this house firemen gear is a hot commodity! (no pun intended)

We opened up each thing and then took it out to play with it, that way they could enjoy each thing a little bit before opening up the next present.  I remember when I was young opening up everything so quickly and not really seeing what I got till I had to take it up to my room.

The kids were great helping and watching Scarlett open her toys, and being patient while we played with her stuff. She was really cute with the toys and things she received.

Then they opened up Auntie Steph's presents.  Bridget loved her cash register, Lucas loved his Racetrack and Scarlett...

Thinks he Little People Fairy Treehouse is the coolest.  She played with this for 15 minutes while the kids opened their presents.  She is really into Little People right now so this was a great gift!

They each had a big bag under the Christmas tree from Grandma and Grandpa Horn.

Bridget got this and was clapping because she could put her baby in it and go to the store and Lucas got this...

A Rescue Boat!  He wanted to call Grandpa immediately and tell him Thank You because he really wanted this!

We had the tree up for 3 weeks and no one touched the tree and then Scarlett discovered it had lights on it and that it needed to be touched! Hahaha.

They opened a bunch of other things but this was the gift that Nathan and I were the most excited about - it took us 2 months to do it and it was the anticipation of it all that really was so hard for me.

We built the kids a stage (not pictured) and made them each a dress up box full of cool stuff.

Bridget had

Tinker Bell dress ups (3), Princess dress ups (3)

A fireman and a construction worker in her box

Lucas had

A Fireman, A Police Officer, A Construction Worker (thanks Witte's), Super Why(pictured), A Chef, A Bug Catcher, A Magician, and a dad in his box.

This was my all time favorite gift because we worked so hard on making it!  The stage doubles as a puppet theater and will be its own separate post! :)

After 2 hours of playing and opening we had a light breakfast and then it was time to Skype the Horn's

This was our gift to my parents and I think they really liked it!  Can you see them?

Grandma, Grandpa, Steph and Theo! It was so cool to talk to them and thank them right there!

Then we ate my Christmas Feast (basically a repeat of Thanksgiving but I did everything myself)

Then nap and STOCKING time.

I had a hard time pulling Bridget away from her babies.

It was a great Christmas for us and I hope yours was great too!