Merry Christmas!!

We had a super awesome Christmas morning, greatly improved from last year when Whitney refused to wait for anything or anyone and opened all her presents in about 5 minutes! :) This year was so happy and chill and fun.  We all came down at about 7:30 and dug into the stockings and Star Wars-themed presents from Santa. :)  

So many classic faces from Whitney!  

with her new light saber toothbrush!

Loving Katelyn's missing front teeth smiles!  And the PJ's I made!

 Owen was a little confused...what are we so excited about?  

And then he saw the suckers in his stocking!

 And promptly opened and ate one, and no one stopped him!  Wow, this is the best day ever!

 Then he found a toy from Santa, sweet!  Candy and new toys?!?

 And he finally figured out what all those packages were for- ripping!  We didn't really buy him any new toys (only Santa did) we just wrapped up a bunch of old stuff that I put away when he was born, for this purpose!  And it worked great, he LOVES all his "new" toys!

 Whitney enjoying one of her favorite presents- a treasure box full of treasure!

 Owen walking to me with his new toolbelt on- and you can see his cute top teeth.

 Kate with a doll and books from Grammy and Grandpa Jamie- and you can see another huge pile of books behind her arm!  The girl asked for lots of books, and she got them!!  She was thrilled.  And they might actually last a couple of weeks!  She's read a couple already. :)

Owen reading a book from Grandma and Grandpa

 Kate with her cowboy boots from Aunt Jenae!

 and my favorite present to her- yellow monkey rain boots!

 Whitney in her Star Wars shirt from her cousin Caleb, and SW PJ pants I made all the kids.  

 And Owen's favorite present- this little push/ride-on car thing (it was also Whitney's fav present on her 1st birthday!) :)  He kept plowing through the wrapping paper pile with it, loving rides on it with Eric pushing, and-

 even trying to give Whitney rides. :)

 We had nowhere to go, so we spent the day reading tons of new books, playing all our new games, going sledding, yay!  and watching Brave.  What a happy family day.  Love, laughter, and kindness.  Oh and Eric gave me perfect presents, but the best present has been spending so much happy time with him, with and without the kids.  Life is so good.