Christmas Morning

Cameron and I stayed up until about 1:30 Christmas Eve. We had dinner with his family that night and didn't get home until late. After reading bedtime stories to the boys, we let them track Santa on the internet to see where he was. They had the best time with this!!! We also let the boys put the Santa key outside since we don't have a chimney. Santa left the boys a present and filled their stockings. He left Parker a new bike (thanks to Craigslist) and Andrew got a pair of skates (thanks to ebay:). They also received a glow station, some craft type things, the new Narnia and a Will the Mighty Warrior devo book. They had a great time!! Cam and I left their Santa presents unwrapped assuming they would come to our room before going into the living room... WRONG.. we were sure snoozing while they were checking out their Santa gifts:). I don't really have any pictures of Piper opening anything because she slept through the whole present opening. Piper got several things from her Grandma's and cousins but not really anything from us. Her brothers picked out a couple of things the other day with Grandmommy. We realized the boys might be sad if her stocking was empty so we put a half empty can of baby puffs in it. hehehe... Andrew opened it and was so excited Santa left something for Sissy. It was so cute!! Although I didn't take tons of pictures of Christmas because I was videoing most of the time. This picture of Sissy was taken with my iPhone at Grandmommy's house. She was wearing one of the bows from the present. She really likes her big bows:).
One of the things Santa left the boys was tic tacs. Uncle Bruce always has orange tic tacs, every Sunday. It was sooo funny. Parker had his tic tacs and bubble gum tucked between his pjs and belly and kept pulling them out saying, "you wanna tic tac?... I'm Uncle Bruce".

Park Weather

We've had a wonderful Christmas break so far. Cameron is off almost the entire 2 weeks that I'm off so that's been wonderful! The day after Christmas we decided to go to the park to let the boys ride their bikes. Parker got a new bike for Christmas:) He was super excited!! Parker is literally a breath of fresh air!! He is the MOST excitable person I've ever seen. His body gets physically overwhelmed with joy and he shakes all over! It's so funny. He was overjoyed with every toy. I still need to upload pics and video to post about our Christmas day, just haven't had time yet:).
Our mornings have been filled with sleeping in!!! Piper wakes up at 6:30ish and eats and then straight back to bed she goes until around 9:00. It's been fabulous. Parker is usually the only one up in the house. Andrew comes and snuggles mommy until I get up. Cam and I have gotten very spoiled on all this sleep:).
Here are some pics from the park taken with my iPhone, so they're a little fuzzy. As you can tell, Andrew never slowed down enough to get a good pic, he was just a blur the whole time we were there:).

The Wise Men:)

Cameron built a nice manger for Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. The boys have enjoyed it:). I'm hoping to go out Christmas morning and read about the birth of Christ as a family inside our little manger, all bundled up of course;). The boys are excited about Santa Claus. Uncle Bruce got us a cool little Elf that we hide every night for the boys to find every morning. The story of Elf is that he'll go back before Christmas and tell Santa how the boys have been. They love getting up every morning to find the elf. It's a lot of fun for them. Although they enjoy Santa and the Elf, they really do know that the real meaning of Christmas is Jesus. They know that the Elf is "pretend" watching them but they know that God sees them ALL the time, EVERYWHERE. They're at a wonderful age right now and this Christmas has been the best so far for our family.
What a gift we've all been given! It just brings tears to my eyes to think of that special night years ago when God sent us a Savior!!!

Play date with Grandmommy

Grandmommy always takes her grandkids on a play date when they turn 5. Andrew got to go on his this past Saturday. He was really looking forward to it and talked about it all week:). They went to Marketplace to have lunch and then afterwards Grandmommy came and picked up Parker and took them both Christmas shopping. She's brave, being that it was the Saturday before Christmas!! They got to pick out presents for Piper, daddy and mommy. They are very excited about their presents. I'm impressed with their abilities to keep secrets, too.