Merry Christmas!

The boys were up bright and early, ready for the Christmas fun.  It looks like Santa Claus came!  Here they are rummaging through their stockings.

Andrew was still feeling a little under the weather and preferred to sit in my lap for most of the day.  He wasn't quite ready to open presents yet.

We really like to take our time on Christmas morning.  We take turns opening presents and usually pause to play with what was just opened.  Santa Claus brought Star Wars Legos for the three older boys, so we took a building break to construct the newest sets and to have cinnamon rolls for breakfast.  Yum!

Andrew decided at this point to finally open a present.  He wasn't sure at first about what Santa Claus brought him, but he did like the noises from his robot.

I love this picture!  Last year, the three older boys got some pillow pets for Christmas.  We decided Andrew should have one, so Zachary and Ryan helped me pick out a monkey one for him at the store.  Zachary was especially excited for Andrew to open it and almost ruined the surprise a couple of times.  Zachary couldn't wait for the big reveal!

This is also pretty typical of a birthday or Christmas present-opening.  Mom's official "stand back" arms.

Go Aggies!

After opening presents we took the kids downstairs for the big reveal --soccer nets!  We spent a lot of time playing soccer downstairs.  There was so much running around that I got a bunch of blurry pictures.  I need to figure out how to take better action shots.  We had so much fun spending time together.  

It was a great day.