Christmas

This year we decided to spend Christmas at home. We are glad we made that decision since the weather was very bad in the Northwest. We are happy that Jamie is in a position right now that he was able to spend several days home with us over Samantha's two week break. It was nice to have everyone home for a few days (with no surgeries) and just hang out. Santa was very kind to us all and we had a great morning of opening presents.

Samantha was very excited when she opened this. She promptly put it on and wore it the rest of the day.

Samantha is still very much into Hannah Montana. Just about once every week, she tells me that when she has a baby, she is going to name her Hannah Montana. I wonder how long this stage will last?

The search began a couple of years ago to get this for Andrea. It began when I found a toy iron at Savers for a couple dollars. Since then, whenever I get out my iron, Andi is always quick to run and get her iron. At first it was really cute, but then she wanted to iron right next to me, what I was ironing and I got afraid that she would get burned. I would try and make a make-shift ironing board for her, but it wasn't good enough for her. So I started the search. Finally this year I found one! I was thrilled. She loves it. It came with the board, an iron, "can" of starch, a basket and two hangers. Andrea and Samantha have ironed a lot (and some very odd) things around the house.

I thought her smile in this pictures was cute.

JJ got a lot of cars and trucks for Christmas. He loves them all and carries them around the house all day, hiding them all over the house. We made the mistake of opening up a couple packages of the cars and all he was interested in after that was carrying around his cars, driving them on the presents we gave him to open, and sitting on the other presents. Anything that comes up to about his knees, is a chair to him. (That's candy from his stocking on his chin)

This was about the only unwrapping that we got JJ to do.

Riley spent his time looking around at everyone, but not to interested in what was going on. He got a lot of toys that he seems to be really enjoying. He also got some new clothes, he is growing so fast I hope he gets to wear them more then a couple times.