Christmas 2014

On Christmas

Wow, did she get what she wants?

 Eve, we spent the whole day cleaning the house so that it would be clean for Christmas. We were going to go out caroling and then to a friends house for a big dinner. Unfortunately, one of our friends got sick so we had to move the dinner to our house. :-(  
While we were caroling, there was an elderly lady who was creeping out most of the kids with us, so we left that room pretty quickly. As we walked down the halls, I noticed that the doors had signs on them that asked you to make sure that you had no elderly people trying to escape with you. We went to the lower floor and finished caroling.
When we all arrived at our house, the fun began. immediately, all the toys were pulled out and strewn across the floor. Our clean house was a mess by the time dinner was ready. Everyone sat and ate, but halfway through the meal, the little kids were back to the toys. There was some very fun clean up afterward.

Everyone was up at 6 in the morning ready for presents.

In the night Owen and Guss had migrated from Phineas' room to sleep in their own bed. Phineas was still asleep, but he got a cool tower to race cars down that was taller than him! Lucas got a Ninjago LEGO set that had a four-headed dragon, a giant snake and a prison tower. Chloe got a drawing kit and a quilt making set. Owen got a LEGO AT-TE set that he was building all day. Guss got a LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean set that he finished in an hour and almost fell asleep. (He claims to have woken up at 3:42) We waited for Phineas to wake up to open presents. Then everyone migrated into the kitchen for breakfast and ate. We then went and opened presents. Owen and Guss got Kindle Fire HD 6s and books for them. Chloe got more art stuff including an art desk to go in her room. Lucas got a dinosaur book, and Phineas got a bouncy blue ball. As a family we got a Settlers of Catan Expansion, Ticket to Ride, Bean-Boozled, Wreck-it-Ralph and a grill to name a few gifts. The rest of the day was spent playing with their new toys.

We watched the Guinness World Records largest nativity many times (Watch Here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrLoWt2tfqg



Yes, We know you are good at taking pictures Guss

Is there a common theme here?



Phineas loves to crawl over here to look at the Christmas Tree.



Such Excitement For Stockings