Christmas

We spent Christmas Eve at Brian and Joyce's new house. We had a very nice dinner.

 

 We opened up presents. Brielle helped everyone open their gifts.

 Aunt Jamie and Uncle Pete were able to come out from New York to join in the festivities.

 Graham got a new tool for our attic project. (Graham and my dad are building out our attic into a play room.)

This is a picture of us setting out cookies for Santa. 

Both kids really wanted to eat his cookies. 

 This is our family picture from Christmas Eve.

 Here is the tree the next morning after Santa had come.

 The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

 and filled all the way up!

The kids enjoyed a morning of opening presents from Santa and us.

Liam loved the first gift he opened and ended up playing with it for 10 minutes before he wanted to open anything else. 

We didn't have snow, but we had a beautiful sunrise. 

Brielle ripped all of her presents open and loved every minute of it.

Liam got the remote control truck he asked Santa for.

Brielle got the vacuum she wanted. Now she can vacuum just like mommy!

She also got the stroller she asked for. She is constantly trying to sit in it.

 Liam got the umbrella he asked for too.

 We had our families come join us for gift exchanges and Christmas Dinner.

So Sweet!

Daddy and the kids showing off the shirts I got them. A great time was had by all. It was the best Christmas yet. We enjoyed every minute. Our only complaint was that it was too short.

Unfortunately, we had to take our tree down the next day! We got it so early this year it was completely dried out. It was a huge mess! It took us forever to get all of the needles out of our house.