Christmas Day

We had a great Christmas. This is the most excited Spencer has been for Christmas, he was going crazy.  I don't know how, but we didn't get any pictures of Christmas Eve, which is my favorite day of the year. We invited a family that is just starting to attend church, but they didn't end up coming, so we kind of winged it. We invited our neighbor also for dinner, and he joined us for Christmas Bingo. Fewer people meant more prizes for us I guess. Then we went to the "Christmas light parade." It was snowing and windy, but we sat in the car. I kept trying to find out a real start time- but everyone said sunset (which is not a time). We didn't go until after dark, but still ended up sitting in the car for an hour. We did the nativity with puppets while we waited, and then the kids drew on the windows because it was so foggy and now they really need to be washed. The floats were pretty cool once they came, but I think next year we will just walk down to the school and walk around them since that's where the parade ends and they stayed there for a few hours. Then we opened pj's from Grandma Gosney and talked to them over a google hangout which was fun, but we didn't get pictures of that either. I wish we had taken a picture of the food Spencer left for Santa- ham and jello. He probably gets tired of the cookies anyway. We also left some apples for the reindeer. The boys were sooo crazy by bedtime! We said they had to stay in bed until 6, but we ended up getting up at like 5:30 the next morning. I think the days of sleeping in on Christmas morning are officially over.
We accidentally started a new tradition last year since Christmas was on Sunday we just did Santa stuff before church and then brought out the other presents after.  We really liked spreading it out, so only the Santa gifts were out on Christmas morning, then we brought the rest out after breakfast.

Now you can see their cute Christmas PJ's.  I love how excited little kids get about presents.

Spencer got a Magnetic Dartboard.  It has been well used, and works really well.

James just wanted a present, but he got a castle which he played with all day, and many days since then.

We had Gosney breakfast burritos for breakfast.  James threw up- do not be alarmed he has the Gosney gag reflex and just didn't want to eat, so he gagged when Devon fed him.  Too bad he had to change out of his cute PJ's, but no other harm done.

I made quilts for the boys- okay I've been working on these for years and they still need to be bound, but December really was crazy, I tried. 

Spencer got a "bub" from his cousin.  It is a little plastic figure you can color and design, and he thought it was the greatest thing ever- I never know what he will like.

Here is James kissing his hot chocolate.  He is a funny boy.

My grandma made pillowcases for all of her grandkids and great grandkids- that's more than 50 pillowcases.  She also chose specific material for each one, and she could not have been more right with my boys, she chose exactly what they like.  Grandma's are amazing.

They opened grandma Coombs' present while on the internet too, so we don't have pictures, but they have been wearing their jackets everyday.

We spent a lot of the day doing this.  I love there pictures.  You can tell James doesn't really know how to throw a dart- these things were amazing, they still would stick.  Spencer and James look so involved in the game it makes me laugh.

We also watched some new movies.  Spencer's new favortie is Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.  We watched it on the Christmas and on the way to and from California.  It is a good long movies- good for trips.  They have been singing the music since then.
We had a great Christmas.