Merry Christmas!!

The festivities started off after I got off work. Mike and the kids went to Christmas Eve service at church and I beat them home from work. Mike's side of the family always comes over after church on Christmas Eve where we eat good food, watch Christmas Vacation, and now do White Elephant gift exchange. We had a great time! After everyone left we revealed to Nathan that he got a new orange kitty for Christmas. He was sooooo excited! We gave it to him early because it wouldn't be fair for him to get it and then have to leave for his mom's and leave the kitty behind.

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Well, for Christmas I was a bad photographer!! I came away with two pictures from the entire morning!! The actual Christmas morning started off with me being cancelled which was great! The kids slept until 8 am when Kali made her rounds. As is tradition they started off with their stockings while we made coffee. Everyone had a cup of juice or coffee and then we headed into present time!! I had to help Kali because she kept lunging for the other kids' gifts and that's why I didn't take many pics. In all it was a great day. Mike and I felt blessed to have been able to get as much stuff for the kids as we did and also we found the holiday with most of us healthy. Mike was still holding on to his cold Christmas morning but now he is feeling better! :-)

Here's Kali sporting two of her favorite gifts... her Mermaid night gown and her Hello Kitty spin brush. :-)

Here is Nathan's new Christmas kitty... Tiger! This little toy was in his stocking and he LOVES it! It's a fish on the end of a fishing pole and then mounted on the glass on the back door. He had logged a few hours with it since he joined our family on Christmas Eve!

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Kimberly and Nathan went off to their mom's house before lunch and Mike and I cleaned up and Kali played with her new toys. Later after nap time we went over to Vic and Carolyn's house to celebrate with the Foley's. Again no pictures but it was fun! The kids all opened presents and played. What a great day!!

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Christmas kept on going for us on into Saturday with the Coldwell's. Mom and Dad's house was full of 30+ people and we made the most of it! After good food and white elephant gifts paired with lots of laughs... Santa AKA Dad made an appearance. Kali flipped out until he pulled down the beard and revealed that he was in fact Papa. We have captured this on the camcorder and I am working on getting it on the blog... super funny!!