How much fun is Christmas...

Our backyard Christmas Eve

Christmas was wonderful this year! Christmas Eve we went to our friends house (thanks D for letting us invade your home this year). They just had their 3rd baby and she adorable! Kate is lucky to have a little friend to play with :).

Auntie Nicole with the girls & Kate and Erica close up...go to sleep Erica or Santa won't come..

Then we headed home around 11:30 and made sure their was milk and cookies for Santa and the kids were asleep within minutes. The next morning (at 5:30 am) I heard the kids come running to wake us up. We were all up and the opening of the presents began! That was done by 6 and Jared & Kate headed back to bed :). We then headed out to Papa & Yaya's for Christmas with them. Honey even got some bones out there that she opened by herself. Saturday we went out to my sisters house for Christmas with my mom (Nana) and Sarah's family. As usual the kids had a blast playing with their cousins all day. Then my dad's side of the family all got out to Sarah's house around lunch time and we all caught up with laughter and funny stories and games (if you haven't played the game "Things" you should check it out...very fun). Some favorite gifts this year were an electric drum kit for Jack (actually it is for everyone but he uses it the most right now), webkinz for Grace, and a Bumbo chair & ocean playmat for Kate. Jared and I had gotten our Christmas presents early so we didn't have anything on Christmas but I was happy to get a Cricut Expression (a die cutting machine for my scrapbooking) and a Garmin GPS (for my lack of direction). Jared got some music equipment & hunting gear he was really wanting.

The drums....at least we can plug in headphones :)

All this Christmas stuff is making her tired...

Playing Rock Band and opening gifts at Sarah's (Josh is quite the singer!)

Opening gifts at Yaya & Papa's

So now that Christmas is over it is time to get back to reality and focus on our goal of 2009.....Get out of debt! We have our house on the market...if you know anyone that would like to move the Verona area and live on the only lake Verona has to offer please let me know! I will be doing my next post about our house and why we are making this decision.