Christmas started way earlier than it should have this morning. The older kids were wide awake first thing, and woke up the little ones because they knew they weren’t allowed out in the living room until everyone was awake. Adam was QUITE grumpy at being awakened. I just laid in bed pretending to be asleep for awhile to annoy the older kids. 😛
When I finally got up, I went out to the living room to preheat the oven and open the blinds and I found a blanket of white outside that was not there last night! Snow has been pretty sparse this winter.
Since Adam was not happy about being awakened, I took him out to the living room by himself first. I had to show him which stocking was his.
Then he went to show everybody else and we let them all come out to the living room.
The kids lined up in order like that by themselves, and Jeremy is holding Seth. 🙂
We let them play around with what they got in their stockings for awhile then we had breakfast. After breakfast, we moved on to unwrapping presents. We cut way back on presents this year. Partly because we didn’t start shopping until way late, partly because we couldn’t afford much this year, and mostly because we have a TON of stuff already. Grandpa had asked for some ideas for Christmas shopping, and I told him that we have so much stuff that we don’t need any more stuff. I gave him a few ideas that could be for the whole family. He decided to go with getting the family a telescope, a very nice telescope. It’s a computerized telescope, and we can’t wait until it’s warmer so we can play around with it.
Jeremy had asked for the Disney infinity game, and Ethan wanted the Skylanders video game. I’m not excited about either of these games because you are required to buy each character that you want to play as, separately. So not a cheap, buy it once and play it to unlock characters kind of game. But Jeremy almost never asks for anything specific, so Kyle got the game for him. Jeremy was very excited about it too.
Lydia, since she is three and going into Sunbeams at the beginning of the year, she got a set of scriptures.
Each kid had a present to open, and we let Adam open the one for Seth. There were also a few presents from Santa for everyone.
Kyle and I didn’t even get anything for each other, just because we have so much stuff that we didn’t feel like just buying something random for each other.
The rest of the day, we just relaxed and let the kids play with the new stuff. And since Debby and Jeff no longer live in Utah, they didn’t stop by and it was just our family all day. To avoid cooking we made sure we had fixings for sandwiches. Over the years we have found that we prefer keeping the food simple on Christmas day, and we do the fancy stuff whenever we are getting together with family. Which this year, will be tomorrow. 🙂