Wow, has a week already passed by since Christmas? Just goes to show how busy everything has been, it's been quite a blur really. This year, we had such wonderful Christmas celebrations with all our family, and from Christmas day on, we had celebrated each day with family. By Sunday night, my body had had enough, and shut down on me. Unfortunatly I've been sick in bed with a cold ever since (hence the reason it's taken a week to get Christmas morning up on the blog) :)
We had such a wonderful relaxing slow Christmas day. We stayed home this year and just focues on our kids and family that day. My parents stopped by in the morning and had a feast of a breakfast with us (THANK YOU Chris for making such an AWESOME breakfast!!!!)
We cut back this year on the piles of gifts, and we were worried at first how the kids would react. But I have to say, it was probably one of our best Christmases. The kids enjoyed each one of their gifts, and spent the rest of the day playing with them as a family. What a perfect day!!
The kids woke up to a letter from Santa, which Brian read to everyone.
I LOVE the look on Regan's face when Brian read that Santa almost had to skip our house since they were up so late! hahaha
Then "opened his gift" which was a note written on wrapping paper telling him to look in the laundry room for his gift. :)
Regan's Christmas Gift From Santa from Jen on Vimeo.
Next was Bella, who could really care less about opening her gifts, but now that she's figured out how to ride on her little horsey on wheels, she LOVES it! But I just LOVE this video of how she reacts to photos of her, can you tell he mommy & daddy take pictures of her often? :) We know we can always make her smile by pulling out a camera and showing her a few photos of herself (hmmmmm, we may need to work on that narcissism) ;)
Bella LOVES the Camera! from
Jen on
Vimeo Then Aiden took his turn. He's REALLY, and I mean REALLY into trains right now, so Santa brought him a Thomas The Train set. He was SO excited!
Aiden Opening His Christmas Gift from
Jen on
Vimeo
Brian got an Eye Clops. That this is AWESOME!!! He's brought it with him to every single one of our Christmas gatherings, and it's entertained everyone for hours. It magnifies things by 200x and plugs into the TV so you can see everything. I have to admit, I'm quite entertained by it!
Brian Opening His Christmas Gift From Santa from
Jen on
Vimeo.
The holy grail of baby gifts, Cheerios!!!!!!!
Bella LOVES her new cell phone toy, maybe now she won't steal my iPhone so much, (yeah right a girl can dream can't she) ;)
I love seeing how focused the kids are when they open their gifts, the anticipation, excitement, and gentleness (until they know what it is) is so great to watch!
Bella was so excited and happy through the whole morning. I just love her expressive little faces she makes :)
Brian was excited to get dart refills for his nerf gun
and EWWWWWWW, all three boys got nasty fake teeth in their stocking and LOVE them! Aiden however took some time to warm up to them, and wouldn't try them on Christmas day at all, I don't really blame him :) haha
Bella however, had no problem and tried out one of her brother's grody teeth. haha
Not sure what's up with my look on my face here, but I just LOVE Regan's expression. It's so him right now. He's always looking at us with this inquisitive look, checking if what he's doing is ok, and you can always see his joy and excitement right behind that questioning look :)
Merry Christmas everyone!!!! We have another Christmas post coming with a Christmas Silly String war (you don't want to miss this!) But that's all for today.
Have a Happy and safe New Year's celebration tonight. I'm sad to say we had to cancel our New Years party because I'm still sick. But I'm looking forward to a fun movie night with our family! :)
