Christmas Day 2008

Christmas morning....the most magical day. I love the feeling of anticipation that the kids are feeling, the excitement of the parents to give gifts to their children, and to think we are doing all of this to commemorate the birth of our Savior. I'm sure He smiles as He sees the love of families as they are together, the giving to one another that is going on, the peaceful feeling that is in the air. It is so fun to come out of the house in the mid-morning to see all the neighbors out in their front yards with the kids running around with their new toys and the neighbors visiting with each other because there is no rushing around with places to be! (I guess the front yard playing is just here in Florida with the 80+ degree weather we had Christmas day, not in Utah with the snow they got:) It was a great day.

The good old tradition of lining up before going out to the tree


It was a Christmas of wheels around our house, Gavin got a scooter to replace the embarrassing pink one he rides around all the time....



Emma got a 2 wheel one to replace her pink 3 wheel one that Gavin was always taking away from her....

And Luke got a skateboard.



Gavin wins the award of funnest to watch open gifts...he would shake and then jump up and show it to Matt and me no matter what it was.


He got this little guitar that cracks me up...I think he is trying to mimic Matt on our Rock Band game...Check out the video at the bottom of this post!!!!!

Luke had a Indiana Jones Christmas...he got the Play Station game and tons of the Lego's

Can't go without a Barbie :)

We got an extra special surprise...Christmas morning there was a knock at our door...it was the mailman!!!! WHAT on Christmas DAY!? Matt's sister Julie must have spent a lot extra to make sure Emma's present was there on Christmas day! How sweet! And it is the cutest tu tu and puppet I have ever seen! Thanks Julie!

This is the new guitar (for Rock Band) that the kids gave Matt for Christmas
They were very excited that he likes it!

Matt and Luke spent hours working on his Lego's :)

Matt had heard on a podcast that you should NEVER give your wife kitchen appliances or a gift having anything to do with working out....I must not be a normal woman because I LOVE all my gifts! Maybe it's because I am getting old and so things like shelves for your cans, and food storage make me excited! That is all I asked for from my mom and dad and in-laws! Thanks mom and dad and Greg and Wendy!!!!! Check out my beautiful pantry and the starts of my food storage! :) Then I got knives from the kids...VERY exciting, I feel like a whole new world of slicing instead of sawing has opened up to me ;) And then I got the Nike+ from Matt which I am THRILLED about. I have always been a little jealous of his :) Thanks everyone for my wonderful gifts that are not, and never will be faux pauxs to me :)

This one fits PERFECTLY under my stairs in our closet! Exciting! :)

The knives go nicely with my mixer Matt gave me for another holiday...again I am grateful for this appliance - no faux paux here! :) (What does this say about me...am I boring?????)