Christmas

Christmas doesn't start Christmas morning, it actually starts Christmas Eve. We each get to open a present and we get the cookies set out for Santa. As a surprise this year Cambrie, McKenzie and Brody also reenacted the Christmas story.

Christmas Eve gifts. We all got...

New jammies!

 

With our new stockings we were all jumping in anticipation for the morning.

 

The girls got new bunny slippers, and they literally were hoping for joy...all night long.

The girls also opened up....diapers?  Cambrie almost stopped right there.

 

But never fear, they were actually new cuddly blankets for the girls.

And Papa was thrilled about his grandpa pants.  What a stud!

After round one, we went to bed fairly early on Christmas Eve. But before we hit the sack, Brody asked about what time we could expect the girls to wake up in the morning. In years past their excitement hasn't resulted in their waking up early and they get up around the same time as always. The window of time we gave Brody, as well as the other adults in the house, was any time from 6:30-8:00. Imagine my and Jeremy's surprise when Cambrie came bounding into our room at 5:20 AM and announced that Santa Claus had come. She knew because she had already dumped everything out of her stocking. 5:20? Really? There was no way we were getting the rest of the Rogers sleeping adult children up at that hour so we turned on a movie for Cambrie and told her once she heard other people moving then she could go back upstairs. We were awakened again at 6:30 by both girls and decided at that point we were going to wake the rest of the sleeping household. They weren't happy about it. But Christmas continued and we all opened our presents. We took our time handing the girls their gifts and dividing the rest for us. By the time we were finished we had been opening presents for three hours. Not because we had thousands of gifts, but because everyone was still half asleep and we were moving pretty slowly. 

Checking out the loot from their stockings. 

Gifts from Aly and Brody: more Legos for her Lego friends and a new Rapunzel Barbie

The big ticket item this year were LeapPads for the girls.  They each got games, carrying cases, and skins for their new toys.  Both girls have picked up on them really quickly and they were a huge hit.  Are they really old enough to be getting electronics already?

New ski goggles, because she is going skiing this year!

A golf ball goof ball pic of Bruce.  All the boys got new balls with their names printed on them.  They are all waiting for the snow to melt so they can use their new balls.

I'm not even a die-hard Packers fan but I am totally digging Dantley's new hat.  Doesn't it look comfy?

But I did get a hat of my own.  I've always wanted a fedora.

This is just not any Real Salt Lake jersey, oh no.  This is an official jersey from the equipment manager of the team.  The coolest part about it?  The star.  Jeremy can't get enough of that shiny star.

Have you ever seen girls so excited to get coloring paper? We go through a lot at our house.

This scroll shows all of the food storage items that Jeremy and I got from Bruce and Leesa.  She didn't want to wrap each can, imagine that :)  We are so grateful to have that kind of help getting it going.  We must be old since we're asking for food storage huh?

 

Pictures with the girls' complete gift piles.

After presents were done, Grandma and Grandpa Pearce showed up for Christmas breakfast.  We gorged on breakfast casserole, smoothies, and cinnamon rolls, then most of us tried to roll back into bed while the girls played with their new toys.