Merry Christmas!

We officially had our Christmas Dinner today. I made Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Stuffing, Sweet Potatoes, Jello salad and a Peach cobbler.
If my mother-in-law were here she would say "We ate like kings!" Brad and I won a Santa footprint stencil from a white elephant exchange game. We had footprints going from the fireplace to the tree. The kids thought it was so cool to see Santa's footprints. Then Jaeger walks over to the table and says "Oh, guys I found what made those footprints, it was these" and holds them up for all the other kids to see. We forgot to hide the evidence. Dang it. I hope they forget about that next year. Brad and I just looked at each other and cracked up. It was just too good.

Yeah our tree will be updated for next year. Justin and Mindy gave us this tree. The first year we lived at the Pitstop. Luke played with all of our ornaments. So our tree always looked a little "different". Thanks Okay, Thats what I loved about it.

We had a weird count down this year.
Dec 21st Our heater was making a funny smell. Because it's gas we didn't dare to turn it on during the night.
Dec 22nd Savanah burned the palm of her right hand, 2nd degree burns. Spent afternoon in ER room. Heater guy came and fixed the heater. Yeah!
Dec. 23 Brad and I started coming down with something
Dec. 24th Brad and I are so sick. I haven't been that sick for a while. Thank goodness I started feeling better towards bedtime.

Dec. 25th CHRISTMAS. We had some extra wrapping paper so we closed off the hallway opening into the living room with wrapping paper, so the kiddos wouldn't sneak a peak. They thought that was real cool. Owen, Jaeger, Lucy sat right in the middle of the hallway facing the giant wrapping paper. I got a kick out of hearing them giggle and laugh with one another. And then watching them break threw it.
We had a good time opening presents. Savanah kept darting her head back and forth between all of us. She could sense the excitement, but didn't understand what was going on.
We didn't have Christmas dinner because we were all still feeling a little yucky.

Luke was so excited about this.

Guess what the boys got? Wii're have lots of fun playing it too. I think my favorite game is bowling. Last night after all the kids were tucked into their beds. Brad and I started up the game and played for a good hour together. It was a great date night.

Savanah eating all the toys.

I really miss my extended family. Brad and I decided a long time ago that Christmas was going to be a Holiday that we just stay home and enjoy with our little family. But I do love getting together with you all and I miss you, every single one of you. I Hope your Christmas was good.