Christmas!

I remember when I was a kid getting so excited about Santa. My brother and I would sleep in the same room where we would plan out all night how to catch Santa (my brother even set up an electric alarm one year)...that is until we would accidentally fall asleep. We would wake up in the morning and go to my parents room as early as 4:00AM. My parents would then tell us to go to bed and come back later. We would come back but it was usually at 4:10...4:15...4:20...4:30 etc until they would finally get up.
My kids - NOT like me. They fell asleep fast on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning Kaiya and Ava woke up around 8:15, went to the bathroom and then went and played in the playroom. Ella was still asleep. There was no begging to go out to the Christmas tree. I was the one begging Cirdan to wake up Ella. He finally gave in and we all went to wake up Ella.

The girls walked out while Cirdan video taped and I took pictures. They opened up stockings then presents under the tree.

Our princess not wanting to wake up...

Their first reactions are the best!

The thing that Kaiya wanted most for Christmas was...A Coconut!!!

Momma's present...

Ella and Ava both got a Nintendo DS. They were really happy about it!!

After we opened present we headed over to my parents house for some brunch, to hang out with the family and more gifts. My brother got XBox Kinnect for Christmas and we had our Wii there so there was some video gaming going on. After visiting for a while we came home to clean up a bit and relax.

Kaiya was sooooo excited for Cirdan to open up her coconut. I am not sure what she expected. She asked for the same thing when she was 5. She forgot how much she didn't like it. She spit out the coconut water and choked down a piece of coconut. Merry Christmas Kaiya!

This was one of her grossed out faces. Silly girl.