Christmas time

We had the traditional Christmas Eve dinner at my parents' house. 

We ate lots of yummy food.  I made rolls and this time they turned out, unlike Thanksgiving dinner!  

 The kids were excited to play the present game.  Grammy explained that she had wrapped up 7 presents and each kid got to take turns picking a present when their number was drawn.  She told them they could either unwrap a  new present or take the present away from a person. 

  I wasn't sure Cameron really understood the rules, but he was the 2nd person and chose to unwrap a present.  Then a few other cousins went and he watched closely.  

It was Spencer's turn and he had barely gotten the wrapping paper off of the present before Cameron grabbed it from Spencer and quickly handed him his present.  We couldn't stop laughing!  He was so quick it was hilarious.  Spencer was a good sport and nobody else took it away from Cameron.  He held onto it tightly for the rest of the game and when it was over he came up to me and said, "mom will you put this in a safe place, like your purse, so nobody can take it."  The snowman sits in the bathroom and tells jokes and sings and its motion activated...he LOVED it!

 Then we watched a little video on the saviors birth and his life.

 Christmas Eve....right before we went to bed ;)  Oops we forgot to leave Santa cookies this year!  We got home late from my parents' and had to do baths and open one more present...new jammies to sleep in!  Then we hurried to get the kids to bed so Santa could come.  When Cameron remembered the next day he said, "good thing other people leave cookies out, he had some.  We will write him a note next year and tell him sorry we forgot."

 Santa brought Cameron a lego table and lots of legos.  The table is awesome, you can build right on it and leave your creations there.

 Mackenzie was so excited for the baby Santa left, she is such cute and loves playing with babies!  She sings them songs and rocks them. She got a cute baby bed too.

Santa brought them an art table.  Cameron is an artist and loves to spend time creating!  Mackenzie likes to do what Cameron does, and she puts stickers on paper and loves to color too.  The both got shovels.  Cameron was excited about that because he has been using daddy's big shovel and broom.

 Grammy and Grampy gave Kenzie this Klip Klop horse castle.

Grammy and Grampy came over around noon and the kids opened presents from them.  Cameron got a Smurf Wii game.  He loves to play the Wii and immediately went downstairs to play Smurfs.  He figured it out all by himself.

 Cute Mackenzie took a nap after lunch (grammy and grampy were still there too...we have the best kids for going to bed!)  After she woke up we went to Margo's house for dinner and opening more gifts!  Mackenzie loved the fur real cat.  

 The kids stayed in their jammies all day.  It about killed me to let them do that, but hey it's one day out of the year right?

We had a great Christmas!  It gets better and better every year with kids who get so excited for Santa to come!  We are thankful for technology, the kids got to Skype with Grammy T and open the presents from her while she watched.  We also Skyped with PawPaw and MawMaw Robin and the kids opened the presents from them also.  Merry Christmas, see you again next year!