Christmas Morning 2013

J.J.'s presents from Santa!

 Bailey and Addi's presents from Santa!

 Little Rylee Roo Roo's presents from Santa!

 Mom, Dad, and family presents.  Growing up as a child Santa always arranged all our presents together in a pile for each child.  We use to love it.  We would run downstairs, find our stocking to know which presents were ours!  Josh and I have different opinions on how Santa should leave the gifts!  Santa always just left all of their presents under the tree.  I think I have won on this dispute because of my OCDness! I like everything organized and tidy and ready to go.

 J.J. and Bailey woke up at about 7:30 Christmas morning ready to open presents.  Which is their normal wake up time.  Poor Addi was just so exhausted from all the partying and just can not keep up with her older brother and sister.  We made the older kids try and wait for Addi to wake up, but she wasn't and they were just way too excited to make them wait longer.  So we started without her and Rylee!  Rylee slept until we were ready to leave the house.  We had to wake her up.

 So exciting and fun to see Christmas through your children's eyes.  It makes the holidays so fun and priceless.

 This was our family present.  We our so excited to play it together as a family and make some great memories spending time together.

 Addi trying to wake up so she can open her presents!

 So excited for her Doc Mcstuffin and Lamby.  She is continually singing the Doc Mctuffins song.

 Rylee got a Dora book and little stuffed animal.

 We are not so good about taking pictures of the two of us!  So here we are Christmas morning.  Could not be feeling more loved or blessed.  This man of mine is amazing.

 All she wanted for Christmas was makeup!  Man, I am in trouble.  She thinks she is sixteen already and has the attitude of a sixteen year old too.  She looks like a real live barbie.  She could not have been any happier when she saw that santa brought her two things of make-up and lip gloss.

 This little man wanted a really fast remote control car, a train, and a scooter.  Luckily for Santa, all things were found for great deals on Black Friday shopping.  I would say we had four happy little kids that all got what they wished for!

I finally was able to surprise Josh with an I-pad mini for his schooling and church work.  I usually can not pull off any surprises so it was fun that he had no idea what he was getting.  Josh surprised me with a new road bike so I can finally do a triathlon like I have been wanting to do.  I was beyond excited and can not wait to start training. 

We went over to Bev and Jerry's for a delicious breakfast.  Had a great time spending time together and the highlight was getting to skype Josh's brother Jordan on his mission.  He gets to come home the beginning of April.  It is crazy to think he has been gone almost two years.  We are so proud of him and  can not wait for April.