Christmas Morning

Living pretty close to all of our family, the probability of us being all over town during the holidays is likely. Because of this, Doug and I really want to make sure we can have Christmas morning reserved for just our family. We have done this every Christmas since Evelyn was born and it has been really nice.

Since we don't do Santa at our house, all of our gifts are wrapped. (Click here to read about some of the reason why we don't do Santa). You can imagine how excited our 4 year old was to open presents.. she was trying hard to be so patient while I got cinnamon rolls in the oven and we got Matthew changed and fed a little bit.

"Now? Can we open presents now? ;)

Esther is Evelyn's favorite book of the Bible. I have had this movie for a long time and have had a hard time waiting until Christmas to give it to her. She loves it!

So we got Matthew this race track thing.. it was hard trying find something we thought he would enjoy. (He really just prefers to play with his sister's stuff!! Heehee!) He opened it and Doug put it together for him and showed him how the cars raced. Apparently he had other plans for his new toy...

All he wanted to do was SIT in it!! Seriously.. he sat in it more than he played with it. Funny boy! He still likes to sit in it, but he will run the cars now and seems to like it.

Who doesn't like Thomas? :)

I really feel it is important that my kids learn to do two things and do them well: swim and ride a bike. It's something I learned early and am so glad I am proficient at both. Our big gift to Evelyn was a princess bike. She had talked about a bike for a while and really liked this bike when she saw it at Target. Sometimes, tho, she likes the "idea" of something more than the something itself (and don't we all?). She likes the bike very much, but I think if we had gotten her the big set of princess barbie's instead, she would have been just as, if not more, excited. Once the weather gets nicer and she starts riding, I am pretty sure she will love it, tho!

The kids helping Daddy put the bike together

Matthew helped more than his sister!

Ready to roll....

For some reason I didn't get any more pictures, but our morning was full of smiles and laughter, as well as lots of wrapping paper and boxes!

Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday Jesus!