Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas day. On Christmas Eve we went to my parents' house for most of the day. My mom cooked a very yummy dinner and we read about Jesus' birth in the scriptures and sang songs and then hit another pinata. We didn't take too many pictures that night. We mostly just used our video camera. Jordan wouldn't hit the pinata this time. Jackson loved it though. The kids were really excited for Christmas.

Jackson had fun playing with Grandpa.

Cute Kenzie in her cute Christmas dress.

Cute Doug and cute Kenzie

I made the kids Christmas pants again this year. I actually made Kenzie 3 pairs, but the first too were too small. I barely had enough fabric to make the 3rd pair. I also tried to make them pajama shirts this year but that didn't work out. The collar was too tricky for me. The first one was too wide and looked funny and the second one looked good but wouldn't fit over my kids' heads. So after a day of frustration I just gave up. I decided it was better for me to be a good, happy mom and not have matching cute shirts for the kids than to be a frustrated grumpy mom, and probably still not have cute matching shirts for the kids.

We didn't get home until about 10:30 on Christmas Eve so I was hoping the kids would sleep in some on Christmas day, but it didn't happen. I had told them they could come in to get us at 7 (which is never allowed in my house) and they were really excited about that. Jackson came in right about 7 and said "Mom, dad, it's Christmas." The other kids weren't up so he just climbed in bed with us (which also never happens... Christmas is just a special day:)) and told him we'd wait for Jordan and Kenzie to wake up. After laying there for awhile we decided to let him watch a short Christmas movie while we waited. Jordan woke up around 8 and came in. We woke Kenzie up about 15 minutes later. She was not happy about being woken up. She was pretty grumpy all morning and ended up taking a morning nap and then an afternoon nap. Then we all went down and opened presents. The kids were pretty excited by their presents.

Excited Jordan before going downstairs to open presents.

Excited Jackson

Jordan got his red umbrella and was very excited. Jackson got one too. Today they were sad they didn't bring them to church since it was raining outside :)

Kenzie loves her new chair. It was one of the only presents she actually seemed to like. The others were her 2 little boxes of cereal, her toothbrush, and her socks. I think she may have been more excited about the socks than the chair.

Jordan got a pirate ship.

And a Mariners' hat.

Jack got a piggy bank which he was pretty excited about.

Jordan and his new binoculars.

Jackson also got a Leapster and several games. Kenzie enjoyed watching him play for a few minutes.

While Jack and Kenzie were busy with the Leapster and were done with opening their presents, Jordan still had several left. He was slow at opening them. He wanted to play with the ones that were already open.

Jordan got a fireman costume. He likes to put it on, wear it for about 10 seconds then take it off.

My parents got them this huge present that they were really excited about.

And they were even more excited to find out that it was a slide. They love it. Before doing things they like to go down the slide "1 more time." Here's Jack going down the slide while talking to Grandma Dance.

Jordan going down the slide. Notice Jack's still talking on the phone. I thought it was funny that he was talking on the phone and kept going down the slide.

Kenzie can't climb up the ladder yet, but she keeps trying. She did go down it once and it was much faster than the ones she's been on and she kind of crashed at the bottom.

After we got the kids breakfast and busy playing with some of their new toys (and tired Kenzie in bed) Doug and I opened presents.

Doug was very happy to find that I had bought him a discount golf card that will give him 6 free rounds of golf at some very golf courses around here as well as discounts to those same courses after he uses the free rounds. He was very surprised that I got him that because I'm not usually that happy to let him go play golf and with this present I'm giving him permission to leave me on 6 Saturdays to play (or other days I guess if he wants...) I think this present was really his 2nd favorite one though. I think the one below was his very favorite...

He loves his new robe :)

Jackson got me this nice Santa hat and Doug gave me the cool onion goggles.

My parents came over after we were done opening presents. Kenzie woke up while they were here and sat on my dad's lap for awhile, mostly just staring off.

Jackson and my mom.

Jack talked my dad into playing Mario kart on the wii. We got 2 more wheels for it so now 4 people can play together. We haven't tried it out yet, but are excited to do it. We like Mario kart.

After the kids ate lunch we went back to my parents' house and stayed there until bedtime. Doug and Jordan built an elephant out of Jordan's new trio blocks.

Jackson and my dad played a lot.

Kenzie and grandma.

After getting home and putting the kids to bed early Doug and I had a chance to play with our new stuff :) We played Donkey Kong on the Wii until we went to bed. It's a fun game. We really had a very fun Christmas.