Christmas Morning

Christmas was a lot of fun this year with the boys. Levi went to see Santa 3 or 4 times and always asked for "a car, a monster, and a truck". I think Santa got the message and was able to deliver everything except the monster.
Levi really understood what Christmas was about this year, as far as the presents and Santa went. We're still working on the true meaning of Christmas with him. Jace could feel the excitement in the air and was happy to be in the action.
Christmas Eve we went to Rick's family party in Woods Cross. It is always a little crazy there, but with 90+ people from my mother-in-law down, how could it not be a little chaotic. We have dinner and get to visit with everyone, it's fun to see everyone and how fast the kids grow. There's usually someone pregnant at almost all times in this family so the family grows fast and it's often hard to keep track of everyone. After dinner, Grandma Cook gives out a gift to each person, yes, all 90+ of us. Then the kids get to do a pinata while the adults try to keep the little ones from getting too close.

Levi wanted to open every single present as fast as he could. Until he got distracted by a new toy and would then play with it for several minutes before realizing that there were more gifts to open. One of his favorite presents was this "Cars" track that was given to us by a neighbor who was planning to send it to Deseret Industries. All we had to do buy a "Car" brand car to go on it. Both he and Jace have had a ton of fun playing with it.

After we had our Christmas morning we relaxed and let the kids play for awhile before heading to my parents for brunch and more presents. Levi was pretty excited with the scooter he got from my parents and has been zipping around on it since.

Jace and Levi have enjoyed playing Candy Land 3-D style.

Rick and Jace had a good time sitting back and watching the chaos.

Around 2 o'clock Levi started to ask "can I go home, I'm tired, I just want to go home". We still had to go to Grandma Cooks for dinner and more presents.
We had a good time at Grandma Cook's and got to see Jon, Cecily and the kids.
Next year I think we are going to invite everyone to come to our home so that the kids can stay and play with their new toys.