Christmas

We had a great Christmas!  It started on Christmas Eve morning.  We opened gifts from Patty who is wonderful woman that Jason works with.  She was so generous and sweet!    We really appreciated the gifts! 

Then we went to Jason's cousin's house for Christmas Eve dinner and family get together.  Ben came along and it was nice to be with the family.  There was also the annual visit from Santa, and I got a picture of each of the kids on Santa's lap.

It's a tradition to sing a song while on santa's lap, you can't get a gift without you song.  All the kids chose songs that were typical, Frosty the snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Jingle Bell Rock.  Excpet Madison, who wanted to sing, (to the tune of Jingle Bells) Dashing thru the snow with a pair of broken ski's,

o'er the hills we go smahing into trees,

the snow is turning red, I think I'm almost dead,

I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head!

No one appreciated it, but J and I thought it was fun!

The Christmas Tree all lit up! It's so beautiful!  TJ and Coe go all out making the Holiday special for everyone!  They decorated the entire house and tree, just to have to take it down in two days!  They are leaving for Florida three days after Christmas, so they have 2 days to get it all cleared up and put away!

There were many smaller gifts this year.  So this picture is a little deceiving.  And some gifts were too large to be put on the floor infront of the tree. 

Here is some of the after math!  Paper packaging and toys everywhere!  And that's after throwing away one entire garbage bag of paper!  And not a small 14 gallon kitchen bag, an outdoor 50 gallon bag!

Taylor and Melany were playing with Bailey's Barbie dolls.  Taylor is 13 1/2 and Melany is 15!  As soon as they saw me Taylor covered her head and Melany threw the doll aside!  I promised them I'd post this image for them.