Our big fun Christmas!

Oh Wow what a great Christmas we had this year! Sorry I haven't posted about Christmas yet, but we have all had way too much fun playing with our Christmas gifts!

This year our Christmas fun started on Christmas Eve! Darin had to work on Christmas Eve night, so he missed out on the first part, but luckily he did have Christmas day off!! Well anyway on Christmas Eve we headed over to my Grandma Gines' home for our fun Christmas Eve party! I love going to my grandma's house! I have some of the funniest, craziest, fun cousins and uncles in the world! I just laugh the whole time that i'm there! If you have ever met my dad or my brothers, just picture a bunch of them sitting around telling jokes all night! It's great! So anyway back to christmas, we had dinner and then we played our white elephant game, which has gotten crazy long!! We had 38 people play this year, and it took us almost 2 hours to play! Then Santa came to visit us. He sang and danced and gave all the kids presents. Then we all gave grandma our gifts and then it was off to my mom's to do our christmas together! Unfortunatly, we ended up getting to my mom's house around 10:00 thanks to the white elephant game, so everyone was tired. We still had fun though! At my mom's house all three of the grandkids took turns opening up gifts. MyKelle and Gage both got way spoiled from jo jo this year! Some of MyKelle's favorite gifts were her leapster ( and games to go with it), her coloring table with everything that she needs to color, and her new blanket and stuffed animal! Gage's favorite gifts that he got from jo jo are his basket ball hoop, all the trucks with a car mat, and his new blanket!! Then it was my turn to open up gifts. All the rest of my family took their husbands to a football game for christmas and my mom helped them pay for it, so that was their christmas. Darin couldn't get the time off, so we didn't get to go on the trip, so that's why I was the only one to open up the most gifts! ( my mom did have other gifts for eveyone, like aprons, a cookbook, a flashlight, tools for the guys, etc) My mom gave me a Wii for christmas!!!! I was so overwhelmed with joy that I cried!!! And of course kelli was there with natalies new camera to document the event!!(I don't have those pics though-sorry) It is such a great gift! I haven't stopped playing it! After we all opened gifts it was time to go home and get ready for Santa to come to our house! (not that my kids needed anything now)

This is the Christmas Tree after Santa came to visit!

The kids were so excited about Christmas that they woke up at 7:30 (even though they didn't get to sleep until midnight the night before!) The first thing that they did was went through their stockings! Gage was so excited over the new toothbrush in his stocking that he tried to use it before we took it out of the package!

Gage and MyKelle had a great Christmas from Santa and mom and dad. They got new bedspreads and sheets for their new bed! Gage got a cool tool bench with tools that make real tool sounds!

MyKelle also got a leap frog tag system which is way cool and highly recommened for all kids preschool age!

After our Christmas we headed up to Grandma and Grandpa Williams' to do Christmas with them! The kids all got dart guns and had fun shooting at each other!

We had such a great Christmas! Thanks to everyone for making it so special!