A Surprise Day of Christmas!

The package from the Swedes arrived today, so we had an unexpected extra day of Christmas!

Skylar with her new best friends necklace!

Mama loves her new Tomtem's!




Thank you for all of the wonderful gifts!

Santa came!

Christmas day has finally arrived! After all the counting down, it is here. The kids could not be more excited. We headed over to grandma and grandpa's in the morning to open presents with everyone.
Matt, Katie and Jackie.

Starting with the stocking stuffers...everyone loves the lottery tickets (and yes, Ross IS wearing a dickie)!

Even James and Skylar got lottery tickets this year.

Now, Skylar has to wait her turn to open!

James so happy with his presents.

Katie and Jackie enjoying the new leap pad toy.

Kellen really got into opening the presents this year.

Skylar putting her American girl doll stables together.

Brennen poses for the camera while waiting for Papa to put his scooter together.

Brennen could not be bothered to open anything else once he was on his scooter!

I love Christmas!

JT got Jim a rare coin for his coin collection.

Still waiting her turn...

Best line of the day was from Brennen. He was jumping up and down, so excited about this present. He must have been jumping and screaming for joy for about 30 sec. Finally, I asked Brennen, "What is it?" See Movie below. I was trying to catch his joy, but I just missed it and caught the answer at the perfect time. Too bad I did not catch any of his over the top screaming and jumping!





Charlotta is not really sure what to think, but she likes the paper!




Then we went to visit Grandma Oma and give her her presents.


Then we went home to open presents at our house (a little tired of pictures at this point!).

James was so excited and happy with the gift Skylar gave him.


Skylar gets her American Girl Doll bed (top of the list).


Kellen finally has his own DS. I was unsure how he would feel about it, but he was so happy. Especially since Skylar and James were SO jealous because he got a 3D-DS and theirs is just normal!

Charlotta has just fallen in love with baby dolls, so Skylar's gift was perfect for her.


We hope everyone had as wonderful a Christmas as we did!

All the pictures are on Shutterfly. Enjoy!
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Twas the Night Before Christmas...

Every year on the 24th, Santa drops a package off on the front door. It's always filled with PJ's for each kid so that he knows where to deliver the presents. He arrived in the nick of time this year (yes, Charlotta loves to rest her finger in her nose)!

Some very happy kiddos...


All dressed and ready for Santa to drop off his packages!

Cousins hanging out and having a good time together!

Kissin' cousins!

Last Day of school before Christmas Break!

We get to dress Christmasy for the last day of school before break. There is a contest within each grade for who can dress the most Christmasy and the most ugly. James won the contest in his class this year. Here they are waiting for the bus to come.

Brennen's Christmas Program

When I arrived at preschool, the teacher told all of the kids to wave to their parents. Brennen thought she meant wave good-bye, so he was crying and sad because he did not want me to leave. He refused to participate in the program after that.



However, once the teacher brought out the rhythm sticks, then he started to get into it!


He finished with a little bit of "We Wish you a Merry Christmas!"

Then it was time for opening presents. He was so happy and excited about the present (it is a present given to the preschool from Brennen) that I think I might get him one for himself from Santa!

Skylar's Christmas concert, "Humbug"

Skylar had her Christmas concert for school today. She is very excited because she has a speaking part!




I could not get the other videos up here, so they are on shutterfly:
http://thedeanslife.shutterfly.com/, under the Christmas videos.

First snow of the year!

First snow of the year and the kids could not wait to get out into it!