Christmas Day

What a wonderful day Christmas is.  I can't begin to describe how much I love it.  I love every minute of it.  From not being able to sleep all night because I'm so excited, to hearing the kids wake up, and making them wait until we can all see if Santa came together.  To watching their faces light up when they see that He did, indeed come.  To opening presents, and getting to listen to them talk to nicely to each other, and be so grateful for us and each other.  To seeing all of our family, and spending the whole day with those we love most.  I just love it so much.  Our Christmas is always filled to the brim with so many things, that I will divide this day into a few posts.
First up:
Christmas morning, at our house, with our family.  I woke up at about 7:30, and no one was awake yet, so I jumped in the shower.  I should have known that 5 minutes into it I would hear Jace yelling at me to HURRY UP MOM!  I did, and then we went into the kitchen first to see if Santa had eaten the cookies.  He DID!  He even wrote Thank You on the paper, and said the reindeer loved the carrots!

Then we went into the front room to see if He had left any presents.  He had!  And he'd even brought and filled stockings for the kids!

Santa brought the one thing that Nixon had asked for this year.  A robot dog!

Of course, Talon was most interested in the wrapping paper and card board

Santa brought our family the Kinect for XBox

Now Talon wanted to play with the ornaments on the tree

Leila helped him open a present

Leila got this beautiful Mickey bracelet that I found at Disneyland

Jace made me and Brock this fun ornament for the tree

Then, Brock told the kids to head downstairs so that we could hook up the Kinect and try it out, and they got a huge surprise when they went down there!

I love this face!

I think she likes what Santa left her!

Leila got this fun high chair, stroller, and bed for a baby cinderella doll, and was jumping up and down because she loved it so much!

And the boys got this awesome double shot basketball game!  They were so excited!

These kids make me so happy!

Daddy and I got Leila this fun Ariel doll that she can do her hair and makeup and nails

Here are the boys trying out the Kinect - Star Wars

And Just Dance 4 - the one game Jace wanted most

Talon was having fun with Nixon's doggy - Zoomer