Christmas Day 2010

Naturally, we had to wake our kids up Christmas morning. I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned it on here (I know I talk about it a lot on Facebook), but my kids can sleep super late for a 3.5 year old and a 14 month old. I'm TRULY blessed. Are they healthy? Yeah, but can they SLEEP LATE??? In all seriousness, they have slept until 9 am before. So Todd and I got up at 6 and got ready for the day. We saw that Santa had been there and had left us lots of goodies. I also had to run out and get the biggest, baddest Diet Coke around, and have a slice of sour cream coffee cake that I had made two days before. 

Of course,  Natalie was more excited about the donut she got to eat for breakfast than for the presents!  Here is the "before" scene: 

See the Weebles treehouse?  That was a present from Santa, to Grant.  However, Natalie has since claimed it as her own.  It was her favorite present... and it wasn't even for her!!!!  Grant doesn't know any better, and he preferred his trucks over anything else.  Here are some pictures of the kids on Christmas morning.  Natalie was much better about ripping off wrapping paper this year.  I did the unwrapping for Grant.

Grant got a bunch of toys that had wheels on it.  He's obsessed with wheels. He will just sit there and spin them and spin them around.  Not in a weird way, because they only hold his attention for a few minutes, but he just loves wheels. 

After opening about 4 or 5 presents, Natalie decided she'd had enough and it was time for breakfast.  So we ate.  And after breakfast, we packed up the rest of the presents, which then took us 3 days to open, and went down to Plymouth to Grami and Bean's house.

At Grami and Bean's house, Grant got to wear Bean's "Grandpa" Santa hat (which here, could probably pass for "Grant"!)  He looked so cute!

Here he goes again with the wheels...

And of course, Christmas with small children wouldn't be complete without the ubiquitous "box that we had more fun with than any of the presents we got" picture!  Seth and Natalie made a little fort, and they would hide in here.  Please pardon my daughter's appearance.  We didn't feel like brushing her hair because it was so messy.  Sometimes, we'd rather her look like this than to try to tame the beast.