Santa made a stop at our house to fill the stockings and put a few gifts under the tree for Kyle, Jillian & Leah...it looks like they were all quite good this year.
The first thing we do is check out the filled stockings left in the family room. We leave them hanging on the mantle on Christmas Eve, but Santa fills them up so much they end up on the floor. Stockings were a favourite part of my Christmas morning when I was growing up, and it's so much fun now to watch my kids get excited with the fun surprises inside their stockings.
after the stockings are empty it's time to go into the other room and see what Santa left under the tree...
some big hits for the kids this year were skylanders giants for Kyle, for Leah a fairy house including Tink, Periwinkle, Rosetta & Fawn and many outfits for the fairies, and a purple Furby for Jillian!
"Santa ate the cookies and the reindeer ate the carrots!!"
8:00am...we've gone through the stockings, we've checked out all the fun new gifts under the tree from Santa and it's time for breakfast. Check out the snow in the backyard, Jillian certainly got her Christmas wish
After breakfast we all take turns opening our gifts to each other. There was even a special delivery from Santa for me under the tree...a new mini ipad!
Once everything was opened and played with it was time to get dressed and go to church for a really nice service with wonderful friends.
The kids spent the afternoon enjoying some of their new toys...
Jillian combined two of her favourite things by using new craft supplies to draw a picture of her furby. Leah crawled around on the floor with her new Go-Go dog. And Kyle hung out on the couch reading on his kobo touch eReader.
It was a wonderful and full Christmas morning. While watching my kids enjoy themselves I didn't take for granted how blessed we are to be able to enjoy such a wonderful morning with many new toys and games, yummy food, and most importantly sharing with friends and family.
Between new movies, books & puzzles we are all set for entertainment over the rest of the holiday break
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