We wanted to keep Christmas a little light this year due to our trip to Disney. The check book doesn't agree with this goal but we had a wonderful day. We got back from Disney on the night of the 23rd so the Christmas Eve we spent getting ready for Christmas and cleaning up from our trip. That evening we had a wonderful dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Blackham's home with Kristen, Justin, Amy and their little baby Caleb. We had a wonderful meal and had the kids reenact the nativity with Caleb.
Christmas was on Sunday so we did a quick opening of Santa gifts and breakfast before our 9 am church. We finished opening gifts when we returned.
Anson received some much wanted Ben 10 guys and of course legos. We also gave him an ant farm, which he has loved but now that the ants have died I'm not sure I want to clean it out and replace them.
What do you give a 3rd boy in the family, more train stuff! Andrew is our train and airplane boy so he now rides in style with his Thomas train.
Aaron went right to work on his legos, Star Wars ships and could not be disturbed even for a picture!
Rachel received a CD player so she can twirl all she wants to princess songs. We actually replaced the one her because it broke within a week. She loves singing with it, listening to books with it and of course TWIRLING!
The kids also received some play dough from Aunt Aundrea and Uncle Dave. Rachel could barely wait to bust it open and get into it!
After Andrew's nap we went over to open presents with the Blackhams. We then went over to Somers to open more presents and have a wonderful meal with them. (Notice the green grass outside in this picture. It was not a white Christmas for once; Rick was very happy.)
Christmas is a wonderful time of year and I'm grateful to live close to family so we can spend it with them.
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