Christmas Day

 The kids didn't wake up until 7:00 on Christmas morning.  Or at least, they didn't wake ME up until 7:00 in the morning.  Shane slept in a little later.  They were so excited to get downstairs and see what Santa had brought them!

(Leading up to Christmas, Matthew had Allison convinced that she was going to get coal in her stocking, or as she called it, "black rocks".  One morning she whined and cried to me that she was going to get "black rocks" from Santa.  I told her to just be good and she would get presents.  She looked at me frustrated and defeated and said, "But I'm NOT being good today!"  Ah, poor Allie.  Being good is challenging for that girl!!)

(Allison didn't get black rocks!)

(Shane kept saying "Oh!" all morning.  It is now his favorite word and he says it constantly.)

The kids got pop-tarts in their stockings because their mom might have mentioned to Santa that they CONSTANTLY ask for pop-tarts when we are at the store. And their mom always says no.  So, they ate those first, early in the morning, and then we had a nice breakfast of homemade cinnamon rolls, thanks to our neighbors, and my potato bacon breakfast casserole.  We had a quiet, uneventful Christmas at home.  It snowed all day (for several days actually) so we stayed inside enjoying our new gifts and staying warm!

The next day,  we discovered that Santa had forgotten one thing for Allison.  A new big girl bike!  (Actually, our good friends got their daughter a new bike, and they had this smaller one to pass on to Allison.)  She is very excited to get the training wheels on it and start riding it.  We just need the weather to warm up by about 25 degrees.

It was a nice, relaxing Christmas and the kids were very happy.