christmas day and all the trimmings

Well, the boys had woken up at 6:34 a.m. on Christmas morning.  They woke up my parents, Uncle Greg, my husband and I.  "It is Christmas.  It is Christmas.  Get up everyone," SJ shouted at the top of the stairs.  My mom had hurt her leg the night before, so she hobbled down the steps before the boys ran her down.  The rest of us made it downstairs a few minutes later. Bob was still pretty tired, so he said SJ could open all of his presents first.

SJ started opening.  He got a few Lego sets, a 1000 piece puzzle, and a calendar.  He went to open what he said was a "clothes box".  "Just clothes," he sighed.  Then, to his surprise it was three new plushies: Doug the dog from "Up", Bullseye from "Toy Story" and Dr. Doofenshmirtz from "Phineas & Ferb".  He continued to open his gifts.  He picked up a big box and shook it.  "Not more Legos," complained SJ.  He opened it up and saw that there was just a handful of Legos and a smaller wrapped box.  "Oh, Santa tried to trick me," said SJ with a smile.  He opened the small box and it was a new IPod.  "Finally, I got my IPod," he said out loud as if he had been waiting for one for years. 

Bob opened his presents.  He also got some Legos, a puzzle, Yahtzee Flash and a calendar.  We didn't see a smile until he opened his Domino Rally game.  Finally, I thought to myself.  Then, he opened his camera to use with his PS3.  This was another favorite of Bob's.  He opened the rest of his presents and seemed to melt away any tiredness that he had in him. 

We had the boys open their presents from my parents (a Helicopter and more Legos) and then the adults opened their presents.  We all had breakfast and then the boys started to play.  This went on for the remainder of the day until it was time to go to Isaac's house (my cousin's kid).  They were excited to go over there.

We stayed there for a few hours.  The boys love playing with Isaac.  We were playing Jeff Foxworthy's You Might Be a Redneck if...game.  SJ, Bob and Isaac were in hysterics as they were reading the questions to us.  After we left there, we headed over to my husband's cousin's house.  Bob always stays near us since he is so shy.  SJ, on the other hand, is the complete opposite.  He just goes from room to room chatting away to my husband's relatives that we only see occasionally.  So much for being socially awkward!  After a while, the boys played with the kids that were there and SJ did his best to keep their dog away from him.  My husband brought in the board game and SJ was entertaining the adults with the questions.  We stayed there for a couple of hours and then headed home. 

The boys fell asleep pretty quickly after we returned home.  A good day was had by all of us that day.  We hope you all had a wonderful holiday!