Christmas Day 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas!!!  Aunt Julie spend the night so that she could be with us to watch the kids in all their excitement Christmas morning.  Sue joined us too as we let the kids walk out and discover what Santa had brought.  Karissa be-lined for the bead necklaces in her stocking and Tyson was over joyed to see a Transformer for him.  As gifts were handed out one by one Tyson was more excited about giving the gifts he had chosen for each of us than opening his own.  His thoughtfulness and giving heart amazes me sometimes!  

Karissa I think was a little overwhelmed by all that was going on.  The poor thing wasn't feeling well having had a cold for the past few days plus teething on top of that. Her poor little nose was raw and you could see in her face that she wasn't feeling good.  It took her some time to get into the whole unwrapping thing, but she eventually caught on and was having fun. 

Once all the gifts were opened, we got ready for breakfast.  It is a new tradition, started last year, that we have Eggs Benedict for our Christmas breakfast.  It is definitely not the most healthy food, but it is Ben's favorite and oh, so good!!!!

Later on in the day we had the privilege of joining Doug and Sue and many other family members for a early Christmas pot luck dinner.  Lots of yummy food to gorge ourselves with and lots of good company.  To top off the day my brother, Nigel, drove out to spend the next several days with us.  I don't get to see my family too often and to have one of them join us for Christmas was extra special.  I am looking forward to the time we will have to spend with him!

 Thanks so much for spending Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with us Julie!  We sure loved having you!

 Tyson told me weeks ago that he wanted to get a baby for Karissa. I took him out shopping and he chose the perfect one...she LOVES her baby!

This is the gift Tyson gave to me.  He even wrote his name and "mom" all by himself!

 Now we have another game we can play together!

 Tyson was SOOOO... excited to give this game to Daddy.  So excited in fact that he told Dad about it the day we bought it.  He picked it out all by himself.  He loves to play the Wii with Daddy!

 Karissa's first My Little Pony.  Ben was so excited to give this to her, he picked it out just for her.

 Robot Legos set.  Tyson loves robots!