So, we found another bonus of having grandparents with us on Christmas. Apparently at around 3:30 am, our girls woke up and "had to use the restroom", which meant they had to check to see if Santa had come. The girls became very giddy with excitement because Santa had come and they couldn't contain themselves. They went in and out of their room (they were sharing Amanda's room so that Grandma and Papa had a room) several times, later to find out snooping in the stockings. After an hour or so of this, Grandma decided she might as well get up and check on them. Seeing as everyone was too excited to sleep, they decided to break the cards out and play some go fish, afterall what else is there to do at 5am? Papa decided to join in on the fun and shortly after, so did Matthew. Daddy and mommy were peacefully sleeping and totally oblivious to what was happening on the other side of the house. About 6:30 rolls around and we start to hear uncontrolable giggling and what sounds like something being pushed across the tile. Well, the kids were forceably pushing their Papa through the house so that he would wake us up laughing all the way, thinking that mommy and daddy wouldn't be upset if Papa was the one waking them up early. Well, at this point we were all awake except Michael. Finally at 7:00 we decided everyone had waited long enough and we would wake the little guy up, funny we thought he would be the one getting all of us out of bed!!!
We went in to wake Mikey up, and soon as we touched him, his little head popped up, he jumped up in his bed, and with his eyes barely opened, yelled "it's Christmas, it's Christmas". He immediately ran out and saw Grandma and Papa in the kitchen, climbed up on the counter and announced it to them!!! It was cute beyond words!!!
Grandma, Papa, it's Christmas!!!
Once we were all awake, we started by opening our stockings and the gifts that Santa brought.
After our yummy breakfast of cinnamon rolls, we all gathered around as daddy read the Christmas story, and spent sometime talking about what Christmas is about and why we give each other gifts. Then if was off to round two of gifts. Yikes!
Mommy finally finished Michael's "ABC" scrapbook. I think he really liked it!!
Grandma Horsley made these beautiful quilts for the boys!!!
The girl's admiring their homemade gifts from Aunt "E"
Daddy enjoying what is his favorite gift each year, football cards!!!
The aftermath!!!
A favorite new toy of the boys is their new nerf guns. It didn't take long for a nerf war to break out.
The girls broke out their new scrapbooks and scrapped away with Grandma.
It was a beautiful day outside for the boys to try out some of there new toys!
Happy 69th birthday Grandpa Pelletier!
We were blessed with a wonderful Christmas, and are so thankful to God for all that He continues to do for us, but especially for giving us the gift of His Son!!!
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