Christmas Day through pictures...

Surprisingly, the kids didn't get up till almost 8 am,

(that NEVER happened at our home when my sister and I were growing up. We would wake up at like 4 or 5 am, but the RULE was no one was able to get out of our rooms till 7 and till mom and dad told us the camera(s) were ready. We would watch The Christmas Story that TBS would play 24 hours on Christmas Eve through Christmas day...but that was way back then, but we still do watch The Christmas Story...that is a classic! You'll shoot your eye out...)

When we got down stairs, we saw that the cookies were gone and that during the night it had snowed A LOT; almost 8 inches easily. I am not sure what this Winter is all about, one day it is in the 50's and we are not wearing coats to NOW in the last week, we have got over a foot of snow!

SANTA CAME! and he left lots of goodies for us all.

Mackenzie got her guitar that she asked for. Watch out Taylor Swift, Kenzie will soon be the new household name for all the tweens.

Delanie got her Nintendo DS, which she think stands for Delanie Springer, hence that is why Santa needed to bring it to her. She is one smart girl.

Carson not only got one remote control car, but 3! He broke the first one in a matter of 10 minutes when he took it down the stairs. Boys will be boys!

AND

Cassidee got her doll house and baby stroller that she asked for.

Santa was good to all of us this year! It was a fun day for all of us. We must have been all really good this year!

During the afternoon, we had visitors!
Feef and Kory came and opened their presents. It was a change for us, this was the FIRST year that we didn't have Feef and Kory with us for Christmas Eve to Christmas morning. It was hard, but we understand that we must share with other family members, we were just lucky to be able to have them when we did.
Also, Dan's parents made the venture out into the snowy weather to come down and see us. The kids love their Opa and Oma so very much and it added to the magic to have them be able to spend part of Christmas Day with us.

Christmas Day came and went so fast, it is a good thing that we were able to have these pictures to remember the happiness and magic that we shared with the ones we love.

Merry Christmas to you all!