Christmas!

On Christmas Eve morning we let the kids open their presents from each other so they could really enjoy them for awhile.  They were so excited, although the wrapping paper I bought was apparently evil and none of them could get it off of their presents.

Then they all got dressed, and so I took pictures of them while they still looked nice.  The girls picked their own outfits this year, and they matched!  It was a Christmas miracle.  Spencer looks like he has a comb-over because he'd been playing with the squirt bottle for the last 1/2 hour.  That boy is obsessed with water!  I love posting multiple efforts at family photos.  They make me giggle.  But I did leave some out to spare you all.  (p.s.  Gotta love the tippy "baby tree" in the background.  That was the kids tree and Spencer redecorated it often.)

On Christmas Eve we had dinner and activities with some of our friends from the ward.  The children acted out the Nativity (Meg was Mary, Grant was Joseph, Ellie was an angel, and Spencer carried a stuffed animal dog around and got into trouble.)  Ellie even sang a song with her friend Brooklyn, which was very pretty.

Then we played an ornament exchange game:

Waiting at the bottom of the stairs on Christmas morning.  They were so excited, and so impatient while Mom and Dad got cameras all together.  Which is funny, because then I apparently forgot about the camera all together and took no more pictures the rest of the day!

Merry Christmas!!!