Overnighter at Nana and Papas

The kids were waiting forever for Macy to wake up. She was finally up, but as you can tell she was not really that happy about it.

As you can see Dylan loved his gift from Nana and Papa. This bike goes up to 180lbs. so he will be taking it camping for a long time. The kids all loved them.

Macy was so excited about her big box. She got an awesome kitchen set with lots of accessories. She has been making lots of stuff with it.

Dylan and Dawson were getting snuggled in when it was bed time. Dylan cannot help himself he loves Dylan so much.

This year we spent the night at Kris and Neal on Christmas Night. We got there around 4:00pm and then stayed until about 5:00pm on the 26th. It was so relaxed. We had so much fun. Micheal took his xbox and the kids had a blast just hanging out. They all took a few of their new toys and then they had the stuff from nana and papa too. It was really fun. Everyone slept great because we were so tired we could hardly function. It was so fun I think we could have all stayed for the whole weekend. We probably would not have fit through the door because we ate so much food every single meal and even in between the meals.

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Call

Maddie likes whatever it is that she opened. She was actually in a really good mood for being as tired as she was.

Here is great grandma Call opening her presents. She like everything everyone got for her.

Macy was the kid that loved everything this year. She got excited about every single thing that she opened. That makes it really fun.

The girls did not last very long on the ride to grandma's. They were so tired, but lucky they woke up happier than they do on most days.

This year is the first year that grandpa and ma Call stayed home from their Florida house for Christmas. It added another stop to our long list but the kids were very excited to see them. We had lunch there before moving on to Nana and Papas. The kids were very tired and cuddly all dad but that is always fun and they did not get too grumpy.

Christmas Morning

Here the kids are having their breakfast on Christmas morning.

Dylan was very excited about his race track.

Macy got dress-up stuff.

Maddie got up at 5 am.

Santa Came

I think my batteries were getting almost done in this picture.

These were the gifts from Santa, he cordinated the paper. Macy was princess, Maddie was teddy bears, and Dylan was Santa paper.

On Christmas morning grandpa and grandma Gurtner come over to see what the kids got from Santa and to give the kids their gifts from them. This year we did things a little different. The gifts from "Santa" were upstairs and the gifts from the grandparents were upstairs. This slowed the kids down a little and let them see what they got a little better. The bigger tree was "santa" and the skinny tree was from their grandparents. We ate breakfast between Santa and grandpa and grandma's gifts. They loved almost everything the got, but the air hockey table was kind of a flop. Us adults have loved it but the kids are not to impressed.

Twas The Night Before Christmas

Maddie was super tired, she was starting to get really whiney. She was actually excited to get to bed because she knew it would come that much faster once she was sleeping.

Dylan was the one who fought sleep for the longest. He wanted to see Santa really bad, but he finally gave in. What a sweet little face.

Macy actually feel asleep the second her head hit the pillow. She was looking out in the living room through her headboard and the next second she was fast asleep.

Here the crew is aranging the cookies for Santa. Dylan decided he needed one for himself too.

Macy and Maddie were fighting over where to put the food for the reindeer.

A few of our traditions are feeding the reindeer every Christmas Eve. The kids make a mix of oatmeal, glitter and sprinkles. Then they go outside and sprinkle it around for them to eat. We also left out the cookies for santa on our special plate meant just for that, Nana got it for us of course. Then they were off to bed, while we still had much work to do. It is 1:00am and we are finishing up for the night. I have the table set with our formal dinnerware so we can have a special breakfast. The kids are all fast asleep in their beds, all snuggly in their blankets from Nana. I can hardly wait for morning. It is a whirl wind day but we end up at Mike's parents and it is so laid back and relaxing their and we will be spending the night and all of the next day so that will be really fun. Merry Christmas everyone and God Bless you.

Christmas Eve

Nana with her five grandchildren.

Macy with Great Grandma Oberlin

We spent the evening at Great Grandma Oberlin's tonight. As the kids last gift for the 12 days of Christmas from Nana they got John Deere PJ's that she made her self. The girls got matching PJ's for their American Girls, and they all got John Deere Blankets. They were the coolest things she has ever given to the kids. I am once again reminded how lucky I am to have married into such an amazing family. My kids are so loved. We wore these PJ's to Grandma Oberlins, this is our tradition every year. Here are a couple of pictures to show you how cool their stuff was. Thanks Nana for loving us all so much.

Holiday Baking

Every year we get together with Great Grandma and Aunt Lynn and spend an entire day baking. Today was our day. We baked from 10am to 5pm, Whhh. We are all tired. It was really fun, and the kids are so lucky to get to spend time with the extended family. Last year on Christmas Day Maddie got really sick, she is a couple of days early this year. She crashed in the afternoon, Grandpa was ready to step up to the plate and be on nap duty. We will be fitting a doctor appt. into our schedule tomorrow.