Christmas Day!

Very early Christmas morning (well 6:00, but it felt early),we let the kids upstairs to find out if Santa delivered gifts at Grandma Steffen's.  Of course, he did. There were lots of smiles and excited children!

Alex with all his goodies. You'll notice the foam sword, Santa brought 9 swords this year so even Lukey and Julia were armed.

Max with all his gifts from Santa.

Timmy playing with his Jake and the Neverland Pirate set Santa left for him.

Timmy and Parker playing with the new train set Parker got that morning.

Grandma Steffen patiently listening to Max and Oliver talk about Skylanders, a new video game both boys got that morning.

Oliver showing me his new Skylanders in his new Skylanders pajamas.

All mesmerized by, you guessed it, Max playing Skylanders.

Kara, Sophia and Grandma looking on, as we make cookies with Sophia's new baking kit. She can make tiny cookies and cakes in the microwave and decorate them with frosting and fondant.

The finished product.  They spell Sophia.

Henry and Oliver each building one of their lego sets. (No the coffee isn't Henry's :) ).

Luke ready for battle!

Later that day we went to my Dad's and his wife Cheryl's to celebrate.  Above is Henry, Joni holding Zac, Nick, Cheryl and my dad helping get someone's toy out of the box. We all had lunch together, and the kids had a lot of fun playing together with all their new toys.

Kale and Max working on lego sets.

Henry playing with his new play dough truck.

Timmy and Brady building with legos.

Alex also building with legos.

Every year at least one kid gets pulled in this wagon, probably faster than we should let them, but they have fun. Here's Lukey getting his turn compliments of Timmy.

Zac found Grandma and Grandpa Leymaster's push toy.

Sophia and Brady drawing and coloring together, while Nick looks on.

Later in the day Cheryl's daughters came over so all the cousins could get together, and the adults could catch up.  On the floor is Hunter, Sophia, Addison holding the newest cousin (Jodi's first) Camden, and Brady.  On the couch Alex holding Luke, Timmy, Caden,Kale, Henry, Max holding Zac.

Same group with funny faces!