Christmas Day

Merry Christmas to everybody, even if it is just a little bit late. Santa definitely found our house. We had an amazing Christmas and the boys were very spoiled, but their faces were well worth it. I love this holiday and I love the feeling that you have basically the whole month of December. It makes people more generous and nice and the whole atmosphere of life just seems nicer.

We did Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Hatchs house. We always have such a fun time out there and this year was no exception to that. The boys had a great Christmas and so did Matt and I actually.

This is Eli and Lilly checking out the goods. Eli wasn't sure were to even begin. he got lots of learning things this year. If you didn't know us you would think that we were sponsors for leapfrog and vtech this year. I just am really big on the educational toys and they make so many that are so fun to play with.

Ethan was not sure what to think. he definitely hit the jack pot as well and crawled over to his stuff. He immediately went to his leapfrog ABC spin ball thing and started playing with it. He was so cute to watch. And he was so excited when the different toys made different sounds.

This is just a sight of how the living room looked sometime during the morning.

This is Eli playing with his new set of Treo's. He already has a set but when we go to build things we never ever have enough. So he asked Santa for some new ones and Santa was happy to oblige. Because he knows that Eli's parents actually have a blast with this particular toy as well. Give me Lego and I can do nothing, but give some Treo's and I can build you anything.

Ethan checking out his new Leapfrog activity table. He has started pulling himself up on everything lately so Santa thought this would be a great toy for him to work on standing up against. It has been a big success I am happy to say.

Ethan in some of his new Christmas clothes that he got from Grandma and Grandpa. He looked so cute in his new coat and his adorable hat. He even is quite the sport about keeping it on and it keeps his ears so warm.

Eli showing of his new Buzz drawing table thing. It is quite cool actually. It has a light that projects a picture onto paper and you trace the outline and then turn the light off and then you can color the picture that you just drew. He has started tracing things and outlining his pictures. This has been a huge success. He will sit in at his little table and just draw for like thirty minutes undisturbed. I love it and he loves it. And he is so proud of the pictures that he creates for all of us and colors.

Eli and all of his fun Christmas gifts.
Ethan and all of his Christmas gifts. I just love that face. I just want to kiss it all the time.

Eli holding some of his new hot wheels race track.

Just showing off some more clothes. He is such a stud.

And the last two pictures are just to show how fast they crashed at the end of the day. They were so tired and had had such a big day. I don't even think that we had made it five miles away from Grandma's house when I turned around to see this. That is how you can tell it was a great and very busy day.

Thank you to Grandma and Grandpa for letting us spend Christmas at your house and Thank you for all that you do for us. You are always so good to us and I don't know where we would be with out you. Thanks for everything. We sure love you lots.