Merry Christmas

Christmas morning the boys woke us up around 8:00.  We told them to wait at the bottom of the stairs until we were ready for them.  They woke up around 7 and just quietly stayed in Bridger's room.  Christmas morning was magical!  Bridger got a desk to go in his room.  He's been wanting one since we started building.  He wants to put it in front of his window.  We found a desk that matches his bedroom set.  He was so happy with it!!!

Tanner was thrilled because Santa brought him the Lightening McQueen Florida race track.  It's huge!!  It spits the cars out and keeps them going around.  He would have been perfectly happy just getting that.  He and Bridger got some more mini "Cars."  Tanner was super happy with his super hero figures, Spiderman and Hulk.  Since we don't do Barbies, these super heroes are awesome!!  Chase was very surprised to get Madden 18!

Sophie even got a couple of presents.  She got some "tough" chew toys.  Within 15 minutes, she was pulling the stuffing out.  But she was so happy with it!!  Bridger got a model airplane and a model car.  Chase wanted clothes, clothes, and more clothes.  He was very surprised when he opened up some wireless Beats headphones.  His smile made it all worth it.

Tanner got a Leap Start learning pad.  Chase got some flannel shirts.  Tanner really wanted a Lightening McQueen watch.  He was so happy with his watch.  I have no idea where he got the idea about wanting a watch but he's been dead set on asking for one this whole month.  He got a Star Wars ship and a Playmobil go cart set.  Bridger was in desperate need of socks so he received nine pairs of new socks.  Hopefully they'll last more than a few months.

Because Bridger got a new desk, he got a cheaper pair of wireless headphones.  He was still happy with them.  Sophie got spoiled with a new bed that Grandpa R picked out.  Tanner and Bridger seem to like it more than Sophie.  She just needs to get used to it.  It's super soft!

 Halfway through opening presents, Mom's breakfast casserole and sticky buns were ready.  So we paused our opening of the presents and went and ate some breakfast.  She's so sweet to provide us with a delicious breakfast!!  I asked the boys what they thought of the breakfast and they gave me a "thumbs up."  I sent the pictures to mom and told her thanks for the great breakfast.

Bridger gave Matt the Star Wars movies, 4, 5, and 6 because ours were so scratched you couldn't watch them.  Plus, these are in blue ray too.  Tanner gave him some slippers.  And Chase picked out an air-pop popcorn maker for our theater room.  He knows that Matt loves popcorn so this was a great idea.

 Marilyn was giving away some brand new drinking glasses so I told her we would love them.  So I wrapped them up for Matt and told him they were from Marilyn.  He's always complaining about how gross our other glasses look so he was happy about these new glasses.  I gave Matt a new Eddie Bauer navy coat.  Tanner got his first xbox game.  It's the Lightening McQueen race car game.  Tanner made a special gift for Matt and I in preschool.  It's a little tile that has a Christmas tree on it and then he's decorated the tree.  He's been so excited to give us the gift.  It was really sweet.  Around noon we headed down to the A's.  Bridger was so excited to show Mike his BB gun.  They took it outside and worked on the scope but it's not very accurate.  Mike was teaching him how to use just the regular target on the gun.  He was so sweet with Bridger.

I didn't think that we were going to see Amy and Mike but after an hour of being at the A's, they surprised us and showed up.  We even got to see Ashtyn!!  I love this picture of Matt and his Dad...priceless!

 Around 4 we headed over to the R's for a few hours.  We ate dinner at the R's and just enjoyed each other's company.  We had opened presents the night before but Mom and Dad had a few gifts for us.  Mom wanted to play bingo, so Dad went to the store a few days ago and bought a ton of little presents for the kids.  He did a great job picking out some fun things for the kids.

 Mom, Dad, Kaye and Allan surprised Marilyn with a fancy new apple desktop computer!!!  Marilyn was very emotional and overwhelmed by their generosity.  She was so happy with her new computer!

Mom had this towel hanging in her kitchen.  It cracked me up!  I gave mom an instant pot cookbook because she's always saying that she doesn't know how to use her instant pot.  I also gave her some "Le Cruset" accessories.  We were exhausted by the end of the day but it was a wonderful day with our families!!