Christmas Morning

We read from the Bible in Luke, the story of Jesus' birth

Then, we checked to see that Santa had indeed eaten his cookies and milk and the reindeer ate the carrots!!!

Santa SHOULD have brought 3 of these as it caused EXTREME tantrums!!! Oops! Santa knows better now!!

Jake and Luke's train table...a big hit!!

We saved baby Emma for last...Anna was soooooo excited!!!!

Of any of my three children, I expected Luke to be the last one up!! In fact, he was the FIRST! 6:10am Luke was up and crying! I tried to keep him in our bed...not a chance...do you think he KNEW it was Christmas morning!? Jake was next at 6:25am, we was a little groggy at first, but then was a bit excited. We couldn't wait anymore, so sent Jake down to wake Anna up at 6:35 ish. Her initial comment when she got to the stairs was, "Mommy, it's still night time! I need to go back to sleep!!" After a tiny bit of convincing up the stairs they flew and the joy began!
We started by reading the Bible, the story of the birth of Jesus Christ in Luke. It was so awesome to see both the big kids on their tummys, with daddy reading the bible!! Next, we investigated...Santa had indeed ate the snacks we left him. Then it was stocking time, and then of course present time. Well, we (I mean Santa) brought ONE vacuum for the THREE children to share, thought it would be o.k. Santa was SOOOOO wrong on that assessment! Within about 30 seconds of opening it the boys were screeching and whaling for who would get the vacuum! In the end, we sent Jake to his room to regroup and hid the vacuum until all the presents were opened!! They had a great time! It was quite comical watching them not know which toy to play with!