Christmas 2010

We really had a lot of fun on Christmas this year. Our kids were at the perfect age, they were very excited yet their wish lists were simple and cheap. Kallie wanted earrings, and a pillow pet and Cole wanted Buzz and Woody toys and a pillow pet. We were thrilled when Kallie didn't wake up until 7:30, she came downstairs and brought her pillow and climbed in bed with us. At first I thought she must have forgotten it was Christmas because she just cuddled right in like she was going to go back to sleep. I looked over at her a few minutes later and she had a huge grin on her face and big bright eyes. I said, "so do you think Santa came?" She said, "yep he did cuz I peeked!" She was so dang cute! We got up and got dressed real quick and then we all went and woke Cole up, as soon as we said his name he popped his eyes open and jumped right out of bed. We had the best time together as a little family. After opening our gifts we went to G&G Crapo's for our traditional omelet breakfast (The one time each year grandpa cooks). It was awesome, then we went out to my parents to take them their gifts. By 3:30 both of our kids were begging to go home to play with their own toys so we did. It was a really great Christmas.Kallie and Cole picked out this hat for their dad all by themselves and were very proud of it.

Kallie with her new earrings, she couldn't have been more excited.

Cole was real excited about the new bubble bath he found in his stocking! Okay I am realizing that Cole has said a lot of funny stuff lately, but this is definitely worth recording. Cole got a basketball for Christmas, when he opened it he looked at it kind of funny and then he handed it to Weston and said, "this must be for you dad, I don't play with this kind of stuff." Weston was a bit crushed, but we just laughed. We have been trying to broaden the kid's horizons a bit but I guess he is just fine playing with nothing but cows and horses for now right?

The kids both asked for pillow pets for Christmas and were really excited when that was the first thing they saw Christmas morning.

Kallie and her girl cousins got doctor bags complete with everything you could possibly imagine from Grammy. I have had many a "broken arms" treated by Dr. Kallie in the last couple weeks. She has had a blast with her doctor bag.

Some may well know how much I just "love" Christmas. I tried really hard to get into the Christmas spirit this year by decorating a little more and having a few Christmasy activities leading up to the big day. However, Cole was sure to remind me not once but twice why I get annoyed at all the nonsense of the season. On Christmas Eve we went to my mom's house, she gave each of the kids new pajamas and they were all wrapped in shirt boxes except for Cole's, his was wrapped in a Christmas lights box. All the kids opened them at the same time and when Cole saw his box, he screamed; "Yay Christmas Lights!!!" (Granted it was the first gift of the year but still the kid was totally stoked thinking he got a box of Christmas lights!) The second reason is depicted in the above picture. We always stress and spend too much money on the kids when they really don't care, Cole was way more excited about the foam skis he made out of some packaging than he was about any gift he got. Point is we WAY overdo Christmas. I think if we could keep it simple we could keep the real spirit of Christmas with us.

Cole helping Gra Gra open one of his gifts!