Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Whatever! Katelyn started to get up around 2 am and then around 4 am. I think they stayed up until 6am. We had told them that this was the earliest they could open presents. We all got up and opened up our stockings and looked at our Santa gifts. We then tried to settle down and open other gifts.

opening Santa gifts

I had found a bunch o f "I wonder why" books and gave these to the kids. Not a big hit. The kids each received a DVD. Not a big hit with some of us.

Blakely received a new mp3 player and lots of clothes.

Katelyn received High School Musical things . She was not very excited about it at all.

Garret received transformers and legos. Brady found a remote control truck just for him. It was a very nice Christmas. We made pancakes for breakfast. And of course, it is also MY BIRTHDAY. Shawn brought out a wonderful chocolate cake and sang to me for this special day. We relaxed and built legos, added songs to the mp3 player, and got ready to go over to Grandma Peterson's house. Shawn had scraped out our driveway once in the morning, but by the time we were ready to go it was blown and snowed in again. We only have the van right now, so no four wheel drive. I was ready to turn around by the end of our road. We kept trudging through. Katelyn squealed everytime we hit a drift. We made it to Grandma's house safely. We enjoyed a nice dinner and the kids were spoiled by Grandpa and Grandma. We headed home early enough to get home before almost dark. We watched a Christmas movie and played some more with toys until they fell asleep after their long day. Merry Christmas!!!!