Christmas 2009 at Home

-------

We had a wonderful Christmas at Home, with Nina and Papa and with the In-laws this year--Guess it wouldn't be a Holiday if we didn't have a few celebrations! Our first one was at Home the Day before Christmas Eve. The boys woke up extra early (6:30am) as if they knew it was Christmas and there was Presents to be opened...but first our Christmas breakfast with our boys in their snuggly new christmas jammies!

and of course a few poses in front of our tree with Mom....

and Dad!

Then on to the gifts! Ashten and Preston loved opening all of the beautiful presents under the tree that they were not allowed to touch for soooooo long! They even helped Mommy and Daddy open their gifts!

It was so fun to see the excitement in Preston's face with each new present and suprise as if to wonder how we knew he would want such a glorious gift!

Ashten did suprisingly well at opening some gifts...most of the time we let him "work" on his for awhile as it kept him pretty occupied.

Then we spent most of the day playing with ALL the new toys....one of the favorites of the day was the new nerf tag game...Daddy and Preston had quite a good time....Ashten and I enjoyed watching them be silly!

Later that night we had a special treat in our neighborhood--Santa came for a visit!!! We were so lucky he made time to visit us and our neighbor friends since he had such a big next day!

The boys and I waiting for the arrival of the sleigh! Santa brought the little sleigh out tonight but it was magical!

Preston needed a slightly better view!

Thankfully they had a tent set up with heaters so Santa could come in to greet all the kids--Preston even got to shake his hand....

Santa sat down and read us a story--the Polar Express and handed each kid their own special bell!

Of course it wouldn't be a visit from Santa if he didnt bring each of the kids a special gift and so he called them up one by one to sit on his lap and receive the special gift out of his bag!

Ashten needed a little support from Daddy to get close to this crazy looking man!

Preston did a little better (no tears) and actually went up on his own....He was very nervous though, but Santa assured him he was a good boy this year and that made his day!

Before Santa zipped off on his sleigh, Ashten snuck a little seat on his sleigh!

We had a GREAT christmas at home....and were excited to head out on Christmas EVE for celebration with Nina, Papa, Uncle Chris, Maddie, Aunt lisa, Dustin and Tanner!