CHRISTMAS!!

Warning! This post contains many, many pictures of gift opening and happy people!

Ahhh, Christmas morning. Don't you love it? I sure do. Watching the kids open presents and all the excitement is just one of my favorite things ever. :)

The kids checking out the unwrapped things that Santa brought.

THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!!

Sadie bought me some yummy smelling lotions from Victoria's Secret!!

Sadie bought Drew his very own Bible. He loves it. What a wonderful big sis she is. :)

Aaron's cool new hat

Wands, courtesy of Uncle Aaron and Auntie Chrissie!

Chrissie and her new CD

Zack and Drew bought Sadie her very own pink hair dryer. They were so excited!

Drew's new Nintendo DS!

The Black Pearl... before.

Pokemon gifts from Aunt Jeanie and Kellen!

Harry Potter chess. Cool.

Tony's surprise gift... a new iPhone 4GS! Major points scored for Wife. ;)

Sadie in her cure new outfit playing a teensy ukulele

Grandma and Papa checking out their calendar

The Black Pearl... AFTER (It only took him an hour or two, sheesh)

What could it be, Aaron?

Signed Darwin Barney Cubs jersey. Tony's in Heaven!

Time for dinner!

Now it's time to try everything out!

Loving the wands!

Christmas Eve

We left Federal Way after a nice big breakfast on Christmas Eve and headed home. That evening was the Christmas Eve service at church, which was really neat. We did a living nativity, and Sadie and I were angels. o :)

Angelic, aren't we?

Then it was off to Chevy's for our annual Tex-Mex Christmas Eve dinner with Tony's family.

Ole!

Once home, the kids set out milk and cookies for Santa and off they went to dream of sugar plums. Or not, because even I don't know what sugar plums are! :D

A Grayson Christmas

This year was our second Christmas without Dad. Mom decided that she was up for us coming up and doing Christmas at her house, so we went to Federal Way for a quick visit. The kids love going to Grandma's house and we all had a great time. We missed Dad being there, but we know that he was watching down on us. :)

My mom put together a really great scavenger hunt for the kids. I don't know think they had done one before, and they loved it!

Instructions from Grandma

Finding clues

And the reward at the end, chocolate!!

After the scavenger hunt, we headed off to look at some lights. We went to a neighborhood that has had lights every Christmas since I was a kid!

Then it was back to Mom's house for a yummy dinner

Present time!

Uncle Tim

Mom and her new Bible :)

Grandma Betsey and Drew

Zack = Legos No surprise there! :)

Kahz even got a present (it lasted about 30 minutes...maybe)

The next morning was Christmas Eve and we had a delicious breakfast

And then opened stockings

And smiled for a few pictures

Thanks, Mom, for all your hard work making yet another Christmas fun and special. We love you!