Christmas

Our celebrations started Christmas Eve at the Cranes. We got together for cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate while we exchanged secret Santa gifts with the Gaspar de Albas and Cranes. Later that evening at home we opened up our Christmas pajamas. Christmas morning our kids did an amazing job sleeping in until 7:30 a.m. For our kids, that is a huge accomplishment any day of the week, but on Christmas it was phenomenal. It probably had something to do with three straight weeks of going to bed late since the beginning of track out.

It is fun to see the children's different personalities and how they react to the situations. Blake was happy to be crawling (his new talent) around to get to everyone's presents and to eat the wrapping paper. Julia was so excited to finally be able to open up the present with Princess wrapping paper that she had been eying for the last week. After she opened up her presents she was just content setting up unopened boxes around her. She would be happy with just one present. Brayden jumped into his candy right away. He went around and shared with everyone. He was very anxious to open all his presents and couldn't get to them quick enough. Kylee was the first one up waiting for everyone to wake up. She was content and controlled. She waited patiently for her presents and helped Blakey. It was a fun relaxing day.