We drove down on the 24th to see grandparents.  Both kids were so excited and kept asking if we were there yet as soon as we got in the car.  I texted Michelle and they were around 15 minutes ahead of us, but since we had stopped for a brief gas fill up and stretch, we never caught up to the Kaos.  The drive was uneventful and we made it to the house in total of 6 hours.  Neither kid needed any warming up, they both went straight into the house to see the grandparents.  Connor loved saying “Grandma” and his pronunciation was quite good.  They had fun playing with grandma and grandpa the rest of the day. 

    On Christmas morning we all slept in just a little bit later than usual.  Logan was excited to open presents, but we suggested opening their stockings from Santa first while we ate breakfast prepared by Grandma.  Logan and Connor enjoyed the little toys especially the stuffed animals, chipmunk and eeyore.  Logan wanted to name chipmunk right away, “Chip”, and Chip also ended up replacing Teddy as Logan’s buddy for the next couple of days. 

    Logan was so thrilled when we were finally ready to open presents.  He went to look for ones with his name on it, opened it up quickly, studied what the gift was, then placed it nicely down on the table, and got ready for the next one.  He continued to pile up his presents into a stack and was pleased with the height of it.  Connor, on the other hand, did not really care to open his presents, he actually said “no” a couple of times.  He enjoyed handing presents for grandma and grandpa, or us, and helping all of us opening them.  He also liked cleaning up, bringing the wrappers into the trash bag.  After the fun hour of opening all the presents, the boys started to look through all the fun gifts from grandparents, us and their friends.  Logan enjoyed putting together a GI Joe toy (with the help of Stuart) and played with the Mobigo game from grandparents for a long time.   Connor liked his backpack, and played with the pots and pans set for awhile then onto a toy cashier from Yvonne.  Connor liked his backyardigans books from Dora so much that he even put them inside his blanket to go to sleep that night.  I am also a big winner for presents this year as one of my presents was a new touch screen laptop that I am using now to type my blog. 

     I happened to accidentally turn on the movie digest feature on my camera while I was taking pictures of our presents.  Here is a video of it.

    On Christmas evening, Andrew, Julie, Trevor and Jake came over to celebrate with us.  We had a nice chat catching up with everyone, enjoyed opening more presents, then had a wonderful dinner prepared by Grandma.  After dinner, we had tea and desserts while the boys playing with some new toys and Grandpa/Andrew playing with Grandpa’s new TV golfing game.  Logan and Connor also played a couple of silly games with uncle Andrew which they they had a blast doing.  We finally had to take the boys to bath, so we said goodnight to everyone and ended the wonderful Christmas Day.

BTW, the rest of the photos will be added to the photo album after Stuart helps me set up the apps on this laptop.