Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

This year for Christmas we followed our traditions we have had the last few years. On Christmas Eve we went over to my Dad's house. We all went over to Dads house about 4 and sat around visiting, eating, and oh yeah eating some more. After a little bit we did the presents and of course that's the best part for the kids, Cody however didn't want to put down his cookie to open up the presents. It is hard when your seven knowing which is more important. After we finished up at Dad's the kids and I went looking around at Christmas lights on the way home. This house if you listen really carefully had it's lights in sync with the song Jingle Bells or Santa Clause is coming to town. While we were out we saw Santa fly over Billings and Emily goes "Its Santa, I'm so excited I'm going to cry" then she cried tears of joy. It was the sweetest thing I have ever seen, it meant alot to her sense she has been trying to figure out if Santa is real after a little boy told her he isn't. After that it was time to head home and both kids went right to sleep, I'm pretty sure the fact they knew Santa was in town and that they spent a bunch of time that afternoon in the snow helped alot. While the kids were sleep Santa came to put up the stockings. This year I decided to use a TV Santa gave me when I was about 13 or so and get Cody a DVD player, Emily got a CD player that also has spots for jewelry. However it took awhile to put the DVD player toghter, this one has a surge protector on it and it is under the power cord. So when I plugged it in I couldn't get it to turn on and I was starting to get worried when I happen to turn it over and see the switch. Emily tried to get up at 1:37 AM but after about a hour I got her to go back to sleep, Cody then woke up about 4:30 and we just got up at that point. They where both so excited to see what Santa got them. They both got Zue Zue pet hamsters in the stockings so they kids were playing with them then moved on to something else, those things are so real we lost one. Cody's hamster got behind the stove, who would have guessed a toy hamster would be so hard to keep track of. After they checked out the Santa stuff it was time to open our gifts. The kids had so much fun on that part and got lots of cool stuff. Cody loved the blanket that came in a backpack and his K'Nex Lego's. Emily was so excited about her Lou Lou cat, her baby tiger and of course her makeup. Cody got me a jet spa you put your feet in cuz he said my feet hurt alot so it will help (which I thought was very sweet of him) and Emily got me a lava lamp because its pretty and rainbow. After that we got the living room cleaned up and headed over to my Moms house for brunch and dinner. We got there and did presents and then moved on to breakfast. After a little while my brother headed home and my sister and I sat down for a good came of Mario Carts for the Wii (one of the best games I have played on the Wii by the way, if you don't have it and are looking for a game you should check that one out). Once it was dinner time my cousin, his girlfriend and my aunt joined us and we sat down for a prime rib dinner. It was truly one of the best Christmas I have had in a long time, but I am glad it is over and things are back to normal. Hope everyone else had a great Christmas. Here is a collection of the pictures I took over the two days.