Christmas!  

Posted by Amber

This year, since we had to call Matt's brother Devan (in the Leon, Mexico mission) at 7:15am, and since we opened our Christmas presents early, and since we live two minutes away so we could easily jet home to feed our animals, we actually slept over at Matt's parents' on Christmas eve.  It was rather fun because Jason and Camile typically sleep over, too, so we had everyone (less Devan) over for Christmas.  That night, Curtis brought up all of his loud and obnoxious percussion instruments and we jammed to Feliz Navidad for awhile.  I won't bother posting a video because they're long and obnoxious, but I did snap a few stills as well (we went through it like five times at least :))

 Mom and McKade dancing
Jennifer observing, Michelle on maracas, and Matt drumming

Jason and Camile also got everyone a little gift to open Christmas Eve.  We have to share ours with Turk :)  Too bad I've come to the conclusion he hates the shower.  Maybe we'll have to try a shallow dish for him to bathe in.  It's okay, though, this little rack is a nice addition to our shower :)



Matt brought over the Nintendo and Base Wars, and we all stayed up way too late.  The boys mostly played downstairs, while us girls chatted upstairs.  It was fun because Camile and I sat and talked for ages.  We finally went to bed at 12:45am.  I, unfortunately, woke up shortly after falling asleep because my hip hurt. (We were on the floor.  Even though we had a big fuzzy blanket and I put a pad down under it, it didn't seem to matter much.) After waking up and rolling over, I had a bad coughing attack.  I'm very surprised no one woke up, not even Matt who was right next to me.  It was so bad I finally had to go upstairs to get my NyQuil.  I went back to sleep around 1:45am. 

Michelle and Jennifer came downstairs to wake everyone around 6am, and then we headed upstairs to see what Santa left us.


Then it was back downstairs to open family gifts.









 From Curtis - Super Mario Bros. 2, an iTunes gift card, and song suggestions to get with the gift card :)
 Jason and Camile told McKade they were getting him a shovel . . . .
 Too bad the shovel turned out to be Wii games ;)

 Mom got a Kindle
 Playing Super Mario Bros. 2
 Mom had Curtis call Devan, just in case he wasn't the one to answer the phone.
Grandpa Chris trying out Uncle John's new 3D Toy Story game :)

We had a fun Christmas with the family and enjoyed a yummy breakfast and playing with all of the new toys.  We're lucky to have such an awesome family so close to us :)

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