Christmas Day

                                                  Looking for Santa's Gifts

                                                        Reading a letter from Santa

Luke and I set the alarm for 5am this year.  We wanted to be the first ones up.  Well, we sure were!  The kids slept til after 7!  When they came out of their rooms Nana and PaPa were here.  They were shocked to see Santa didn't leave their gifts by the fireplace.  They had to search everywhere.  We kept asking them where another door was that led to the outside.  They finally figured out it was in the bonus room.  Santa left a note explaining that he was afraid Robert might not stay in his bed.  So, he had to make it quick this year. 

Santa left an Easy Bake Oven for Asia along with an Elsa doll.  Robert got a MarioCart thing for the Wii.  After that, we all ate breakfast together.  I fixed Paula Deen's Overnight French Toast.  It was so good and easy!  Then we all tore into our packages.   Mom and Dad got me the neatest blanket.  It made me cry, well and laugh.  Mom put pictures of my sweet old Madison Murphy on the blanket.  Although, the name on the blanket was Mollie Margaret- my cocker spaniel before Madison.  They might have looked alike, but sure didn't act alike.  So now I have a blanket with both my dogs names on it!

The kids got a ton of toys.  I was trying to clean out our cabinets from all the gifts we got last year.  Luke and I decided next year, that each kid will get a small number of toys and be done.  We're thinking we'll do what a friend of ours did.  Something you want, something you need, something to read, and Santa.  It gets to overwhelming for our kids to do more than that. 

We ate a huge lunch of Ham, Green Beans, Hashbrown Casserole.  We had a ton of snacky stuff as well.  We were stuffed.  The kids enjoyed the Wii and a racing game PaPa brought.  It was a fun Christmas!