Christmas Morning.

The house was ready for Santa...cookies, and apple for the reindeer and Milk were waiting....

and the kids passed out from all the famly fun and didnt wake up early the next morning!!

Merry Christmas to Mom and Dad.

Paige woke up about 8:00-We had to actually wake up Mr. Mason - he sleeps in an apparent Buddha formation we didnt know about... The kids get thier sneak peek to the downstairs at all thier loot!

The present opening enused....

Dinosaurs...

Umbrellas...

(santa was a week late with that...he missed all the rain)

and a BALANCE BIKE FOR MASON!

(no pedals - he was confused)

Dinosaur puppets for the Miles boy...

Santa had hidden the BIG presents this year....

they had to hunt for these..

and for Paige:

She was confused when she was opening clothes and stuff for an American Girl doll...but there was no box looking like it had a doll in it....she started to get a little sad we could tell....and then we had to hint that...Lanie was waiting for her behind the couch :)

Love this picture...she was truly in mesmerized by this new doll.

Miles sitting in the piles of trash.

Im looking at this pic and wondering...WHERE DID THAT PACI GO? we only have 1 now :)

Enjoying thier presents.

Of course they also got some coloring books, silly bands (which are now all over the whole house), & BANDAIDS (to cover the owies they dont have in style).

We are so blessed.

We had such an great December.

I think we are able to focus a lot more on the 'spirit of the season' since ive tried to be finished shopping by the first week of December....and I hope I can always do this from now on.

We are grateful for a Savior that was born to show us the way to live and return to live with our Father in Heaven.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2010