Merry Christmas!

Blogging just got more fun thanks to my amazing Santa husband:

My own brand new awesome camera!!  (please disregard the morning hair/clothes/breath.  It was early)

So much fun!

So far Christmas has been great!  We went to Mass last night and then came home and let the kids open one gift (Despicable Me) which they then watched 'til bedtime.  We hoped this would help them to relax before bedtime...but they were still pretty excited about Christmas:

Eventually they did go to sleep though, and then it was my favorite part of Christmas..playing Santa!  We got to set up everything for the morning (which included assembling a CozyCoupe for Ben.  We way underestimated the amount of time, tools and temper involved in that.  Let's just hope Santa was not watching.)  However we got it done, stuffed the stockings ate the cookies and milk and were ready for Christmas.  We knew the kids were going to get us up early so we told them they could not get us up until 7am.  However we did not anticipate the 4:45 wake up from Ben, who decided it was time to start Christmas NOW.  That or time for a bottle, either way.  We opted for the bottle and crawled back into bed until Matthew got us up at 6:59:59.  We were a bit exhausted from the late night CozyCoupe assembly/Ben's wake up, but of course seeing their excitement made it all worthwhile-

First look at the tree....

Here's what they saw

Excitement!

Pea's new bike!  (eye's closed for the picture...she is her mother's daughter.)

Ben investigating the CozyCoupe

Already texting and driving...

Caitlin with her new American Girl doll Josephina

Matthew got a (you'll shoot your eye out) Red Rider BeeBee gun.  Daddy's pretty excited about it.

Signed Michael Montgomery print of Uga...my favorite gift to Matt this year.

MY NEW COOKIE PANTS!  Thanks Gin.  I love them!!