Christmas with the Lightens

Well, it has taken a few posts, but I am finally here!  Ready to document how we spent Christmas in our house. :) 


We actually spent a lot of Christmas Eve day cleaning our house to get ready for "You Know Who" to come.  As the evening approached, we let the kids open one present...it's always Jammies.  We tried to get a pic of them in their new Christmas jammies, but the little girls were a little less than cooperative. 

This is Claire trying to remove her jammies.  Told you, less than cooperative. :)

So we sent them to bed, and Morgan and Jake, Trev and I stayed up decorating cookies for Santa. 

Then we ready the Nativity story, and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.  Right before bedtime, we were all in Jake's room reading books when we heard someone out front!  That's right folks...we caught SANTA!  RIGHT IN OUR FRONT YARD!  Toy sack and all!  Morgan kept trying to hide so he wouldn't know she was still up...Jake was banging on the window and trying to get Santa to look at him! :)  Then all of a sudden, he ran off...the kids jumped in bed in record time, and we did not hear from them for the rest of the night. :) 


The next morning, Morgan and Jake came into our room at 5 am!  Ready to open presents of course...I took pity on Trev and took them downstairs to watch A Christmas Carol (the original, not the crazy scary and totally frightening Jim Carrey one).  That kept them occupied until 7 am, at which point we let them open their presents.  We weren't going to wake the little girls up for it, so we let them sleep in.  Here are some pics of M&J opening their presents.

 Morgan got a new scooter and helmet, Jake got a new bike and helmet.  They were SOOO excited!

 They both got their own Leapster 2 with a couple games...which they LOVED!

Trev got a lot of Cougar gear, and some golfing clothes.  Happy camper!


After the presents were done, we picked things up, and made Red and Green Waffles for breakfast with Egg Nog.  The little girls woke up about this time, so they joined us.

You would think she had a rough night wouldn't you? :)


As you can probably see, bath-time was needed first for the girls...then came the presents for them. :)  It was so fun to watch them getting excited about their gifts...they got a monkey tent, they each got a baby stroller, new baby, and a couple little stuffed puppies.  They ran those strollers around the house most of that entire day, they still play with them everyday. :)

Everyone enjoying their gifts.  Priceless. :)

Well, that pretty much wraps up 2010 for us.  It was a busy year with a lot of ups and downs, but so much joy.  We are excited for what 2011 will bring, and just going to continue on come what may. :)