We played and had fun all day, went and fed cows with my dad and then came home to make dinner. We had a ham dinner with some really yummy salads, treats and wassail. Our relatives, Jolene and Omar came up for dinner and we all had a great time. After dinner the kids put on quite a show. First, they both had Jack Skellington and Woody and they both danced and lip synced to their favorite songs, "Party in the USA" and "I gotta feelin". Everyone got a kick out of them.
Then we took it down a notch and the kids dressed up and played the parts of Joseph and Mary while my dad read the Christmas story. Now my kids are pretty good kids, but they don't sit still very long, especially during prayers...but tonight was different. They knew what they were portraying was important and they sat so still and so reverent. It was so quiet as my dad read from the Bible and it brought tears to all our eyes. The Spirit was so strong and it was really special.
After the story, we had Laini and my mom and dad open their present (the one we had already given Zane and Lindsey). We watched the fun videos we had made "Frosty Day" and "The Christmas Story". Everyone laughed and Brooklyn and Beckham were excited to show everyone again.
We then had a candy cane hunt. The kids thought it was so fun finding candy canes all over the living room and even on people! We also played a snowball throwing game. We had little bags of mini marshmallows tied up to make snowballs and they had to throw it at a snowman with holes in it (like a bean bag toss). We had some sugar cookies and got the kid's jammies on and then Papa read them "The Night Before Christmas". They were so cute and had such a fun night. Before bed, they left out their cookies for Santa and threw reindeer food out on the lawn before snuggling into their snowman bed.
Chris and I watched "Elf" and enjoyed the rest of the night with the fam before turning in and awaiting Christmas morning, it was a memorable night.
Christmas Morning!!! We got up and had the kids eat first thing....which some might say is mean but we know our kids and they need food before the excitement. So about 7:30 am we ran up the stairs and the kids ran into the living room to see what Santa had brought. Brooklyn got 3 Littlest Pet Shop playsets and about 30 little pets to go with it. She was so excited and loved it!!! Beckham got a castle with a dragon which is what he really wanted and was excited to see it and started playing right away.
So they played and showed everyone what they got and looked at each other's stuff and then started in on their stockings. They got the whole set of spongebob characters, candy, and other fun things. Then we all started opening presents and it was just so fun because the kids got into what they had gotten for Laini and GG and Papa that they were excited to watch them open them which was so fun. They also watched each other open their presents and shared their toys, it was so fun to see them be excited for each other.
One of the best presents Beckham got was Woody pajamas from my parents, they were so cute on him and my mom had gotten him a cowboy hat too, he was so cute running around being Woody. The kids also got Mickey and Minnie potato head parts for their potato heads. Brooklyn got a really cute fairy outfit from my mom and fun magnetic paper dolls. Beckham got power tools and a dump truck and tractor. Chris and I don't really get presents for each other but we did get each other a sovenier from Disneyland. I got him a Jack Skellington mug and he got me a fun disney frame to put the kids pictures in. My sis and I got 3 Rivers luggage from my dad and we loved it....we had always tried to steal his when we were home so he got us each one. He does an exercise program at work to get points and he got points so he could get us the luggage. We got my parents the Planet Earth DVD's which they loved and a few other fun things for their stockings and the kids made them some fun little things too. We just had a blast!
It took a couple of hours to open and play with all the presents. Then it was breakfast time and time to watch the Disney Christmas Parade. Breakfast was yummy as always. We always have cinnamon rolls, caramel rolls, and orange rolls along with bacon and eggs. It was so good!
Then we always take pictures of the kids with all their toys so they remember what they got every year. Then we just played all day and watched movies and had yummy Christmas treats!
Ryan and Staci called and got us on the webcam so they could open their ultrasound photo and outfit and find out if their baby was a boy or girl and it was a girl!!! It was so fun to see them open it with her family and us. Brooklyn told Ryan and Staci, "I told you it was a girl and now you have to name it Alexis". Because Brooklyn and had drawn them a picture for Staci's birthday and she drew herself holding Ryan and Staci's baby girl and her name was Alexis. Now this was kind of cool because when Staci got the drawing, she had actually been thinking about names for girls the night before and had thought of Alexis! So we all think Brooklyn is psychic :)
So it was an amazing day full of fun and surprises and we just had a great time. The next day we went to see Great Grandma and we went to The Princess and the Frog and went and saw Christmas lights. We had a great time being in Montana for Christmas and we were sad to leave but we had great memories to take with us and a kitty! ;)
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