Christmas 2013

We had such a wonderful Christmas. Fortunately, I was on-call on Christmas Eve so I was able to attend our annual Christmas Eve church service, help the kids bake cookies for Santa, spread the reindeer food on the driveway and climb into bed where they dreamed of sugar plums and mountains of gifts.

Luckily for me, I was not called into work and when the kids woke on Christmas morning, we enjoyed exchanging gifts and stuffing our bellies with a large breakfast. The kids played with their gifts and then we headed over to my parents house where we stuffed ourselves even more and relaxed with family.

Kaiden only asked for legos. She ended up building all her sets over the course of 3 days

Bryson loves his Batman, Superman, Ninja, etc guys. He lines them up and will play for hours

Sophie is quite the artist and received paints, canvas and sketch books

Our little family

My most favorite gift every year!

Take off

Little man started asking yesterday to have his training wheels off. I told him daddy would help him today. All day he asked to go outside. Of course kyle waited until I woke up so I could help him run up and down the street. 

So Kyle removed the traing wheels, Bryson climbed on and away he went. I held into the seat for a whole 2 seconds and he was off. Up and down the street he went with Kaiden by his side riding her bike too. Every time he stopped he put his feet down and jumped off and ran over to give high fives! 

He was by far the easiest one to learn how to ride a "big kid" bike!

He was so fast he was only a blur :)

Let's wrap it up

In an attempt to avoid last minute wrapping which always takes three times as long as you think, I wrapped all the gifts today. I left out Santa's gifts and Santa's paper. I always have a special wrapping paper that only Santa's gifts are wrapped in. I went ahead and placed the gifts under the tree because I love the look of a Christmas tree with gifts under it. 

Now, I'm sure your wondering if the kids are going to guess what they got and start shaking the gifts. Well, I heard a story a few years ago where a family had numbers for each child. Every year the numbers would change and you wouldn't find out what number you were until Christmas morning. I decided to use that idea this year. I picked totally random numbers. I was going to use the kids birthdays and add all the numbers but that's too easy to figure out.  I also didn't want to give my oldest the highest number because that might be too easy too. I even gave my hubby a number to really throw them off. I also made sure to wrap everything in boxes so the shape of certain toys wouldn't give it away. 

Now, to see if they follow the rule of no touching