Merry Christmas!

I'm barely awake as I'm trying to get this last "December Daily" blog post done.

Darin and I went to bed at 11:30pm last night and then Zach was up at 4am this morning. I could have went to bed at 5pm tonight. I think we are still recovering from our vacation. It has been a whirlwind.

We had a wonderful Christmas day.

Zach totally got Christmas this year....well he got the "present" part of it a little too much.

We definitely need to emphasize Jesus more.

He woke up the last two days and would yell downstairs, "Is it Christmas morning?" He knew it was this morning and was up, like I said, at 4am. I went back and forth with him and he squirmed in our bed until almost 6am when Elissa woke up.

He was very thrilled when he saw that Santa had ate the cookies they had decorated.

Elissa was giddy and keeping track of who's turn it was to open the next gift.

We have somewhat of an obsession with coffee mugs (specifically Starbucks cups). I got the new purple stainless steel.  :-)

Zach has been saying since the beginning of school that he wants to be a Knight when he grows up. I have no idea where this came from, but he is consistent in saying that is what he is going to be - as well as a dad. So I got him a Knight costume.

Elissa asked for an iPod for Christmas. We weren't going to buy her one, but Darin had a Shuffle that he didn't use anymore.......so we cleared it and put her music on it and gave it to her for Christmas. :-)

She was completely thrilled!

I'm not sure if it was a good thing though.....it seems to have increased her attitude of being 6 going on 16.

Darin was very excited to get slot cars. He has been talking about getting them to play with the kids, but I have told him that Zach was too young for them. Then it came up on an Amazon lightning deal and I decided to surprise him and get it. He was surprised!

And here is me getting my awesome camera!

Nana decided not to stay Christmas Eve night with us this year so she could spend some more time with Latte (her cat) that was unhappy that she had left her for 2wks. So she came up bright an early to join us. She enjoyed opening a little bit of jewelry from us. :-)

Grandma and Papa came over in the afternoon. The kids were super excited to see them!

Lastly we Skypped with Grandpa Frink and Grandma Myrna.

Unfortunately the video connection wasn't very good, but they could see all that the kids were showing them (in slow-mo). The kids had to show them all the gifts that they got. :-)

We had the rest of the evening to ourselves.

Darin got the track up and running!

It was a great family day!