Christmas Day 2007

Aylexie backstage at Nutcracker
Ashley backstage at Nutcracker

Girls on Christmas morning
We finally got a wii!!!
Petrolium Jelly & Cotton Ball Santa
Pedigo Cousins at Kristin & Lance's house
Making gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve
Tradition-Christmas Eve pajamas!
Thomas and his new toys

The kids were so excited for Christmas this year...especially Thomas! I think they really start getting excited when they're about his age. Jeff & Thomas headed up to Everett on the train on the 18th. Thomas was so excited to go! He asked each hour if it was time to go. The girls had a few more days of school, so they stayed with me. I surprised them with tickets to the Nutcracker on Friday. I figured since they danced in it with their company, it would be exciting to see it on a professional level. After seeing the Nutcracker, we quickly came home and left for Everett. We had 2 family parties to attend and were excited! Saturday night, we went to Mom & Dad's for our Christmas party. The kids had went to the the Dollar Store to purchase gifts to exchange. They played the game where someone could take it from you...Thomas was NOT going to give up his hummer truck! It was a lot of fun! Sunday, we went to Jeff''s sisters house to celebrate Christmas. We had a TON of excellent food, as usual. :) The kids played a fun game...making a Santa beard by smearing vaseline all over their faces and putting their faces in a bowl full of cotton balls! It was hilarious!

Jeff & I headed home at 9:00 pm and got home by 1:00 am. We had decided that we should get a Wii-(a hard thing to find the week before Christmas). Jeff had tried a couple of times with no luck. I woke up at 6:10 am and decided to check good old Fred Meyer. Jeff had warned me not to get my hopes up. I walked into the electronics department and asked. They said they got 4 in that morning! We were so excited! We hid the boxes behind the couch and decided to give it to them later on Christmas Night. Obviously we didn't hide it good enough! About 2:30 pm, Ashley announced that there were 2 more presents that had needed to be opened. Being the mean parents' that we are, we told them they couldn't open the gifts until everything was cleaned up! The gifts were opened later that day with screams of delight! We have all had a lot of fun playing!