We had an amazing Christmas this year. The kids are so fun on Christmas. They try so hard to be well behaved. Most days they did pretty well. Our house didn't have an elf on the shelf but we did have an elf named George who came to put a piece of candy in the shoes of any boys who had been well behaved the night before. It was pretty motivating for the boys to remember that the elf was coming to visit.
On Christmas Eve we took the boys to see the
Adventures of Tin Tin which was a pretty good movie. Then we came home and got to see Stuart, Brooke, Ocean, and Maple do their Christmas morning for a little while. They live in Singapore so they're a day ahead of us. Then we called Nana and Grandpa Bruce and chatted with them for a little while. Afterward we read the Christmas Story out of our family Bible. Then I had the boys search for a present marked with a star under the tree. They were allowed to open those gifts (pajamas, pictured above) and then they had to go to bed. Of course Evan slept a little while in the movie so he was having a hard time getting to sleep but he eventually did fall asleep.
Then we waited for Santa to come. In the morning we heard some rousing and at first we thought it was Evan. We saw someone go down stairs and then come back up to wake up his brother. Turns out it was Ryan, not Evan. Ryan has always been an early riser. He was up at 5:20am (although he told us that he was up at 4- they have a digital clock in their room). So, we decided to go ahead and get up. Evan finally woke up and we all went downstairs to check out what Santa had brought and open the rest of our gifts.
Santa brought Mommy and Daddy a new TV and a Blu Ray player. sweet!
Santa brought the boys a scooter. He also brought Ryan a Light Bright and Evan a set of Lego Duplos.
The boys had angry birds in their stockings.
Evan was so cute on Christmas morning. He was super excited about everything he opened. He saw this tooth brush and was like, "Oh, awesome! A new Tooth Brush! ". I wish I had that on video.
Ryan gave Evan a Doctor Dreadful Zombie Lab. He was super excited about that too!
Each of the boys had a video game to open. Ryan got Lego Harry Potter years 5-7.
And Evan got Ratchet and Clank All for One.
The major gift that they got was this game called Skylanders. It's a video game that integrates toys into the mix. You take the action figure and put it on the "Portal of Power" and that character jumps into the game. It's pretty cool and they've spent a lot of time playing it.
Here's the boys on their scooters. Evan is a little afraid of his I think but Ryan has been loving his. I wish we had a flatter driveway but they're doing okay learning how to ride them.
I'm waiting on pictures from Christmas at my parents house.. stay tuned!
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