Merry Christmas

The kids had fun decorating the Christmas tree. I always get a kick out of how they put all of the ornaments at the bottom, all in the same place.

Christmas Eve - My parents and my brother Rob and his girlfriend Trish came on Christmas Eve day. We went to 5:00 mass then came home for our annual cheese fondue and the rest of the foodfest. The kids opened their gifts from us and from Kevin's side of the family, and we just relaxed and had a fun evening.

The annual Christmas pajamas

Playing Scene It Disney Edition.

Two peas in a pod...the boys trying out Kevin's new ipod speaker.

Christmas morning - We knew the kids would be up very early on Christmas morning, no matter how late they stayed up. We told them they couldn't go downstairs any earlier than 6:30 a.m. Olivia got in bed with us at 3:30 and Philip joined her at 6:15. They watched the clock for fifteen minutes. I told them I'd give them $5 if they went back to bed until 7:00, but no such luck. I even upped it to $10, but no takers!

Philip was so excited about his Lego Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer.

A Wii!!!!!!!

(My nephew and niece, Jared and Sarah)

We spent the rest of Christmas day at my sister's watching football, opening gifts and playing games.


It was such a nice Christmas.

Rob and Trish had to leave that night, but the rest of us got together the next day and went to see Bedtime Stories at the theater. Then we had a Wii bowling tournament at the Clarks' (which Kevin won, by the way).