Christmas Day

Christmas morning Alyssa was up at 6:15. We were a little surprised that it was so early since she hadn't gone to bed till almost 10 the night before. Both Chris and I got up with her and brought her downstairs. We let her play with the toys she had gotten the night before and talked to her about her presents upstairs. At 7 we ate cinnamon rolls and let her open her stocking.


All morning she was alternating between happy and grouchy. At 7:15 we decided that we had made her wait long enough and we woke Colin up so that we could open presents.  They both really enjoyed opening presents and loved every gift they got. Colin would not let Alyssa touch his gifts once he saw them and Alyssa wanted to play with everything she got right away.
After all the gifts were opened we let the kids play while we cleaned up all the paper, boxes etc. We then brought Colin downstairs for breakfast and I started to get ready for church.
   We went to church and enjoyed the Christmas service, came home had some lunch then put the kids down for a nap while we put together the rest of the train table and I took a little nap myself.
   Once Colin was awake again it was off to Chris's parents house to open more presents. The kids were spoiled rotten and once again were well behaved and enjoyed opening all their gifts. They then played nicely or sat with us quietly while we opened our presents.

   At 7:00 we put them in the Pj's loaded them in the car and both were asleep by the time we got home so all we had to do was take them upstairs and tuck them into bed.