Our Family Christmas

I will start this post with an early gift opening. The girls opened their big gift the week before Christmas since they would receive more gifts at the Metzger Christmas to go with it.

Posing with their piles

The Nintendo DSi's they had been waiting for!

Now on to our family Christmas in Normal.......
Since we would be out of town on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, we had our family gift opening on Thursday evening. This is one reason we do not do a lot of Santa promoting in our house. Since we are never home on Christmas morning, I tell them I contacted the big guy to let him know we would be opening our gifts early so he needed to come to our house early. It gets rather confusing for everyone. Shelby wanted to leave her list by the fireplace for Santa when we left for WI. She thought Santa would still be coming on Christmas Eve and those gifts would be waiting when we got home on Sunday. No such luck! Santa brought his gifts and there would not be more!! Not to mention the man needs your list BEFORE he gets to your house! So, after delivering our Christmas treats to our neighbors, a trip to Target for a return, picking up a pizza for supper, watching an amazing light display set to music on the radio (local friends - if you didn't find this treasure this year, you must next), getting home to eat the pizza, sending the girls upstairs so I could stuff the stockings & get Santa's gifts out of the basement and under the tree, finally we were ready......

Veggie Tales DVD

Morgan also got Toy Story 3

which she doesn't like because it makes her cry

Beauty & The Beast

Shelby also got Despicable Me

Working on opening......

Stacking Cups she wanted after doing them at school in PE

A stack of books from Scholastic

She was most excited for the Christmas from the Black Lagoon book

Morgan with her spread of books

Baby Alive Baby All Gone

Learning Laptop

On her list to Santa was a sweater with a scarf

Once she opened the baby doll from Santa,

she wasn't interested in opening anything else

Modeling her bath robe

more modeling

Morgan & her Crayon Maker

She was sure that was what was in that wrapped present under the tree!

Stocking Stuffers

Eye Glasses for the American Girl Doll

Emily & her new glasses

Ruthie gets new glasses too!

I think they were happy with their new treasures. I had to remind them if they didn't get everything on their lists, we still had 1 Christmas left as well as we DON'T GET EVERYTHING on the list! Merry Christmas!