Thursday, December 30, 2010

Christmas Morning

Okay, so for the real good stuff! Christmas morning pics and vids!

I love wrapping presents and making them look beautiful!  I consider it part of the decor for Christmas.  As soon as I buy a gift, I must wrap it and put it under tree ASAP.  It works for now, but I can only imagine it becoming a pure crime waiting to happen when I have children old enough to know what it means to sneak a peek.  Until then, they will be beautiful!


The morning started bright and early at 7am.  Little children coming from a time zone 8 hours ahead definitely know how to wake early for Christmas morning, even without understanding the excitement of an early Christmas.  We taught Maya & Ethen the traditional Kimball song, "Here we sit like Birds in the Wilderness" as we waited to go in to see what Santa brought.  My grandmother learned this song as a child and taught my dad, who made us sing it 3 or 4 times while we waited and now the new kiddos are learning it.  What a fun, strange, tradition!



And then to the presents!

 Star Wars characters cookie cutters and pancake molds


 The super cute purse I got my mom.  Totally impractical so she would never buy it for herself, but she loved it!


 Ethen playing with his remote control car... for ages 8 and up.  He's almost 2.  Such a little man


 Maya got a Little Mermaid princess dress and fin suit.  But don't the forget princess heels!


 Shirlee and Ethen


Dave and the kiddos

2 comments:

Kevin and Kerry said...

It was so fun to see ya in SLC. I hope ya had a great Christmas and New Year's. Congrats on the huge pie/cake as well.

mekbailey said...

Gotta love "Birds in the wilderness." Pretty much the best tradition EVER!!