Christmas Rocks!

Christmas was so much fun this year! Well, ok. It's fun every year. But with 3 toddlers of my own, my brother's kids and my sister's new baby, it was just awesomely chaotic and full of good times all around. :)

It wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be getting the kids to sleep after Santa came. Bridger, of course, was up late. But even he fell asleep around 10. I let him help me put out the presents I let the kids get each other.

Normally, I wake up around 3 or 4 on my own Christmas Day. As kids, my older brother would always wake me up and we'd go sit by the tree and just stare. LOL! This year, 6am rolled around and I woke up to the sound of my sister waking the kids up! Gah! That's MY job! I was kind of sad by that, but there's always next year. We stayed upstairs for a few minutes and the kids went through their stockings. I put a 2lb weight in each of them, so we can all workout together at home. I also got them each a yoga mat, so they can workout with me when I do the yoga DVDs I got myself. :)

Then it was off to the downstairs Christmas. CHAOS! And lots of fun, of course. There was a good size pile of presents, how could there NOT be with as many of us in that house as there are? lol

Bridger LOVED his longboard. Hunter immediately changed into his firefighter and police dressups and Alayna went nuts over the big horse toy she got. :) They all went upstairs to the playroom later and played their new games they got on their Leapster forever!

Mom made our traditional breakfast of crepes and had all the best fixin's set out for them. Jellies, pudding, cream cheese, powdered sugar..... MMMMMMM! She made baked French toast and eggs too. And my older brother got tamales, just like Dad always had. I LOVE Christmas traditions!

I'll post pictures later.