Christmas Fun!!!

What a fun Christmas we had this year!! The kids were thrilled with the things Santa brought them. A few weeks before Christmas, Maya would keep saying "I'm being good, right mom?" She was so afraid that she was going to get coal for Christmas!!

Christmas Eve was very festive this year. My mom really outdid herself!! I love going over to their house, it is always so fun. They always make things so nice for all of us. We had the traditional Danish feast... and feast we did!! All I can say is yum and yum! After dinner, we read the Christmas story, and played games. Then it was on to the presents!! Here are a couple of pictures of the Christmas Eve festivities.


More fun on Christmas morning!! A couple of days before, we took the kids to the dollar store and had them each pick out a present to give to their siblings. They were so excited to give each other the presents they had picked out.

First we looked in our stockings...



Then it was time to dig in to the loot!!

Collin got a Nintendo DS, he was THRILLED!!!

Maya got her very own camera!! Something she had been talking about for MONTHS!!

Jensen didn't really care about the presents, he was happy just driving his cars on top of them!!

We had such a fun and relaxing day. We stayed home most of the day and let the kids play with all of their new toys. In the late afternoon, we went over to Dan's mom's house, and then over to my parent's house for dinner.

On December 26th, me, my Mom, Dad, Erin, and Alex woke up early and met at the mall at 6:00 to go shopping!! This has become one of my favorite traditions! We always have to go to Target to get our wrapping paper and get discounted Christmas decorations for the next year-- SO MUCH FUN!!! We were racing about from store to store, and kept teasing Alex that he was getting "Man Training".