Santa Claus came to town!

We've had a busy week, obviously, and so I haven't had time to post since the big guy came to visit. So much has happened! Let's start with Christmas Eve. This was actually a pretty mellow day. We didn't have much going on, so we decided to do what we do every year and go see a movie. First we had to visit Urgent Care for Jacob. He had a bad cough that had started on Sunday and it wasn't getting better so I went to see if they could give him something to help. After a visit and a few prescriptions, we were off. We thought we'd go see Four Christmases. Um, BIG mistake! Don't take kids to see that movie. Yes it looks funny, but it's not for kids, we walked out and instead went and saw the Tale of Desperaux. The boys liked the movie, but Nick and I, not so much. Then we went home to enjoy our Christmas Eve dinner, pizza! YUM! We ate and watched the Luke 2 DVD and then read a couple of stories. It's nice to take time to talk about the true meaning of Christmas. Then the boys got to open up one present, like always on Christmas Eve, they got new jammies! Star Wars ones that even light up. Yes, I did good this year and I was told so, haha!

This is on Christmas Eve. They were getting ready to open their present.

Here they are posing with their new jammies on. Jacob was pretty excited about them! :)

Here is Nick on Christmas Eve. He wanted to open this present from me so bad. It was killing him to not know what it was. He really thought it was an empty box. I fooled him good. I made him wait until Christmas to open it. He was trying hard though to make it "pop" open by throwing it around. It wound up being two Suns tickets for the game this coming Friday. One for him and one for Cole. A birthday present for Cole. Neither of them had any idea and they were so excited! HAHA! An empty box...like I'd do that, hmmm or would I? ;)

Christmas day was so FUN! We spent the morning opening and playing with presents. They got some nice gifts from Santa this year, lucky dogs. Our big family gift was a Wii, and that has been the funnest present! I LOVE it! We got lots of fun games with it and we have really enjoyed playing that all weekend. It is the reason I'm so delayed on updating this blog. I've been addicted to Guitar Hero, haha. We even got a Wii Fit with it, and I LOVE that! It's awesome. I tried it out and I'm excited to get going on a work out program with it. Once the boys are back in school I will be using that regularly. I also got the book, The Host, and I'm excited to sit down and read that, also when the boys go back to school. I got a sweet back massager too. It's a Shiatsu one with heat that I sit in a chair and can use anytime I want. Nick also got a new iPod and he has had fun playing with that new toy. Cole got a new bike and Jacob got rollerblades. Jacob has been practicing riding those around the house and is now pretty good on them. He can ride around the block on them and he doesn't even fall down. They also got a few Star Wars toys and Legos. Star Wars and Legos are pretty popular at our house. :)

Here's a video of them when they first walked into the room. All the presents were under the tree except for the bike and rollerblades. They just stood there for a minute looking at them. Cole kept thinking I was going to snap a picture, so he stood there smiling at me until I told him that I wasn't taking a picture. They were so funny. :)

Here they are with their loot on Christmas morning.

Here they are getting ready to open the box with the Wii in it. Santa put all the Wii stuff together in one big box and wrapped it up. Inside the box everything was also wrapped individually so it looked like a big box of presents! They had a lot of fun with that. Cole even yelled out at one point that he loves Santa!

Here is video of them opening the box with the Wii in it. You can hear what they are saying. Nick was getting in on it by helping them open everything and being excited too. I was cracking up! Listen and you can hear Cole yell out how he loves Santa! :)

Here they are going through their stockings. Santa brought them candy, books, a Star Wars DS game, Legos and even a watch in their stocking this year. Good, now they won't be late coming home when they are out riding their bikes. :)

Here are my little Clone Troopers, haha. Nick and I got them the helmets and Santa brought them the guns to go with it. Aren't they funny?

Here they are trying out Guitar Hero. That game is so addicting!

That afternoon we headed to Mesa to my parents house. We always have a mexican food potluck, so yummy! We have a gift exchange with the cousins and that was a lot of fun. It gets wild sometimes, but we all love it. The kids have a blast! Loads of fun with family, good food, good times, GREAT Christmas!

Here they are with their cousins getting ready for their gift exchange with each other.

They each got an electronic lightsaber from Grandma and Grandpa. That was the best ending to a day filled with some other awesome Star Wars toys!

Thanks everyone for a great Christmas! Happy New Year!