Christmas

Christmas MorningWe had so much fun on Christmas morning this year, Zack was so dang cute! He was so excited about every little thing he got. He went to see Santa about a week and a half before Christmas and asked for a monster truck and a Lighting McQueen car. He talked about those two toys nonstop until Christmas. It was so funny when he opened his Lighting McQueen...I guess he didn't completely connect the dots that "Santa" brought all these toys. Here's the moment where he finally did...it was "totally funny!" :)

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He had lots of fun opening his presents and was so happy and excited all morning, it just gets more fun the older he gets!I couldn't get him to look at me for any pictures the whole morning because he was way too fascinated with his toys.He wanted to use his tools from Santa right away, pretty handy huh?

Ben was cute too, he must have known something cool was going on because he is never awake at that time of day. But he woke up as soon as we went downstairs and stayed awake until we finished opening presents.

Christmas Day

We decided to take it easy Christmas Day this year and only visit out parent's houses instead of Grandparents as well. It was sad not to see everyone we usually see but also nice to be able to just relax and spend some quality time with our immediate families.
First we went to the Nelson's house and spent the morning with them.Joanne made her delicious cinnamon rolls (Trent was literally talking about them for a month before Christmas!) and Trent and Steve spent the morning setting up their parent's new TV with their awesome sound system. Trent loves doing that kind of stuff so it was a perfect Christmas morning activity! :)Zack the coolest tools ever from Grandma and Grandpa Nelson so he was just in heaven the whole morning. He still plays with those tools pretty much non-stop everyday so they were definitely a hit!

Around 4 we went to my parent's house to spend the evening with them.The most exciting part was being able to talk to my little sister Melissa who is in on a mission in Tampa, Florida. She is doing so well and it was so fun to hear directly from her how everything is going!

We ate dinner together and opened presents and it was really fun! This was when I was the most grateful we took it easy this year and only went to our parent's houses. Last year Zack missed his nap and was super tired. By the time we got to my parent's house he was so overwhelmed that he just sat in the corner and cried pretty much the whole evening. This year all the kids had so much fun and all the adults were able to just relax and talk. It was really fun!We took a lot of pictures but we used my mom's new camera and had the settings wrong so most of them ended up looking like this...Very blurry, would have been such a cute picture though! Such a bummer.

I guess Richie was put in charge of buying the presents for the boys...nice eh? Trent's were superman instead of Bateman, pretty awesome huh? Haha!

This is what Ben spent the whole day doing, it's what he loves so it was a great day for him!