We heard chattering before wake up time in the morning, and as soon as the clock struck 6:30am the boys came over to our room and loudly said “Wake up time”.  They were excited to open presents or peek into their stockings, but we had to wait until after breakfast.  Once we were ready, the boys dug into the stockings first to open their small gifts, then we all moved over to the living room.  The boys were so excited to crawl around looking at all the presents with their names on them.  We had to ask them to pace themselves and bring presents to grandparents, Stuart and myself in between theirs.  We all took turns opening and enjoying our gifts.  The boys were very happy with all the great things Santa, family and friends had given to them.  For the rest of the morning, we spent time looking through many of our gifts and playing with them.  Logan spent most of his time on the Minecraft Xbox game and Connor played with some of his toys along with Logan’s bow and arrow too.

    After nap, Logan and Connor tried to use the new Spirograph to draw which was a little too difficult for them.  So they moved on to free drawing.  Once I got our dinner into the oven, we started decorating Gingerbread Man cookies.  The boys were determined to make a good looking gingerbread man.  With the help from Grandma, they did a great job.  Logan had an alternative motive to put more M&M on his as he really likes eating them. 

    We all gathered at the dinner table for our holiday meal.  Ham was the biggest hit for everyone.  We continued the tradition of holiday crackers, and the boys had a great time attempting to pull them.  These crackers were not the best made but they actually added more laughter from all of us.  After dinner, the boys attacked their gingerbread man cookies.  At the end of the day, one cookie lost the head and the other lost the feet while we had two happy boys. 

     The big build up to the holiday was now over.  Poor Connor was a bit sad about it.  At bedtime, he kept asking about what the next big events/holidays are coming up, so he could switch gear to the next celebration.  He’s now practicing drawing New Years fireworks.

    Here are our photos from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.