Merry Christmas! This year was so special as Joseph was just SO excited about everything and Ella would feed of off his enthusiasm and got into it as much as she could. It definitely made it easier being away from extended family since the kids were so excited and thanks to our amazing friends here we had a wonderful Christmas dinner at our home as well.
We started off the morning with Joseph coming into our bedroom around 6:30 a.m. but we made him wait to go into the family room until Ella woke up around 7:15. He wasn't even tempted to go out once we let him watch PBS kids on my phone so it made it easy.
When we walked out we found that Santa had come! (Next year we need to get more permanent stocking hangers-I love the ones that I have but they won't hold the stockings once they are filled which is why they are on the ground!)
We discovered that Santa enjoyed the cookies and the reindeers ate all of the carrots and that he left a note for Joseph and Ella along with baby Jesus in the nice, comfortable crib that Joseph created for him.
Joseph and Ella must have been good this year!
All he asked Santa for was a blue football jersey, blue football shorts and football cleats and Santa came through!! These requests all stem from the movie, "Air Bud, the football star". Joseph watched approximately 20 minutes of this movie on our flight to San Diego in October and ever since he has been obsessed with the main character, Josh. Josh wears a blue football jersey and shorts in the movie so that is why he wanted them. He was very particular about the shade of blue-we looked on the internet and I showed him different jerseys and this blue was the right one. This video of Joseph opening the jersey just makes me smile and tear up every single time I watch it. He was jsut SO excited! He wore the jersey for the next week non-stop and normally puts it on at least once a day (remember he still loves changing clothes frequently throughout the day!)
Ella didn't do much opening as her older brother wanted to help her but she didn't seem to mind and just loved being in the middle of all of the chaos!
Daddy says that she is never allowed in this store-don't get any ideas Ella!
Practicing walking with Dad. Both in their Christmas pjs!
I had such a hard time getting a picture of both of them looking at the camera today!!!
Finally...not perfect but not bad!
After a big breakfast, a relaxing mid-morning, skyping with family and good afternoon naps our friends came over for Christmas dinner. We had four other families (the Byers, Knellers, Killions and Enias) over and it was a wonderful way to finish out the day.
A few of the kiddos wishing us Merry Christmas!
The 2013 babies relaxing!
The kids were great, had a blast together and we had a fabulous meal (honey baked ham with lots of delicious sides and desserts!)
I made my family's traditional "delicous cake"for Jesus's birthday cake and we all sang Happy Birthday to Jesus.
What a fun day to end such an awesome Christmas season. Merry Christmas!
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