Christmas Day

The Boys of course were up first and waited patiently for everyone else. It is always so fun to ease drop on their conversations that morning. Then, Laken was up. We let her go out into the Living room to check out the loot. Brad and I had bought the girls a Playhouse off of Craigslist. Laken was so excited! Then, the kids were adament we should wake Clara up. We told them no way, but I think in the end they did end up waking her up. Oh well! Clara's favorite part of the playhouse was ringing the doorbell over and over again. They'll have a blast playing in it outside this spring and summer, but for now it is set up in the living room for the winter. They love, love it!

Here are the rest of the gift highlights: Braeden was so estatic to get his air hogs hawkeye video helicopter. He loves flying it inside the house and plays with it almost daily. It's even attacked some of us due to operator error.

Preston got goalie pads. He is our little goalie in training. He loves everything about hockey and can tell me more about teams and players and stats then I'd every want to know about. He has had fun using his new pads on the backyard rink and he looks forward to the day that he can be on a "real" team just like Braeden.

Clara got a American Girl Bitty Baby that she loves loving up as you can tell by the picture. I think her favorite part is that her baby's eyes open and close.

Laken got an easy bake oven. This girl loves to bake. I think she would choose to bake some sort of treat everyday if I would agree. She loves the decorating part, too. Braeden sometimes gets annoyed by her sprinkle overload, but everyone still ends up eating the goodies.

But, I think our favorite part was that we didn't have to go anywhere, so we could stay in our pjs, snack all day and play with all the loot, because Gammy, Grandpa and Mike came to us :)