Christmas 2010

Christmas 2010 was certainly an adventure, and continues to be one! I have a set of pictures on this post from the last few weeks - so let me go over a few of these.

You are seeing Lambert and Maxwell making cookies for the family and Santa. Santa not only ate their cookies but left a note in the tray saying he LOVED them. Grandpa Russ and Grandma Sue sent the boys a Trampoline for Christmas and after Amy and I assembled it, the boys have been getting a lot of use out of it.

On Christmas eve we went to a local service at the Methodist Church that the family are members of. It was a service geared toward children. It was great. We sung songs, lit candles, sung carols and heard the good news. When we got home we opened two presents to sate the loot thirst the kids were experiencing.

On Christmas day the boys woke up at 4 am, and by the time we heard them they had one present open already. We told them that they could play with that present, and made them promise not to open any more presents until 6am. At that time they could wake us up and we would open the rest.

That didn't go well.

At 6:30am we walked out in the living room and not only was every present open, but nearly every Lego Star Wars present open and most of the bags of pieces open and dumped out on the carpet - in various piles. When we asked which pile belonged to which, they were not sure and I had hell to pay figuring it out. We were, to say the least, disappointed. You see in one picture that Amy caught me assembling these (some 2,500 pieces) that I was not pleased. This wore off quickly and we got on with our day.

However, because of this early morning loot raid, you don't see many pictures of the kids opening presents. We staged a picture of me and the boys with the Lego's I assembled - but that is about all.

Grandmoi and Pappa Wally came on on Christmas day and we have been visiting with them all week. It has been a great holiday!

Jason