Christmas Day 2010 *Dec. 25th, 2010*

The kids woke us up just after 6am and the festivities began. Santa brought Elese a bike and Max night vision goggles. He also surprised Steven with some much desired action figures in his stocking. I was so excited (not surprised though) for my diffuser. I loved and I still love it. When I went shopping this year I bought WAY too much for the kids. I had forgotten that we were going to save a couple of Max's gifts for his birthday so he ended up having like 3 more things to open than Elese. She didn't seem to notice but it was several days before he had taken everything out of it's packaging to play with. They spent the morning playing with their toys and Steven was helping Elese ride her new bike because there wasn't any snow on the drive way.

Then it was on to brunch at the Heumanns.

Next we headed to my mom's for lunch and gifts. Evan and Crystal were in town so it was fun to spend some time with them and the girls. We decided to open gifts before eating because they had to head out to Crystals parents. Unfortunately Steven had already cooked his wontons so they weren't as good as usual. My mom was able to get all of us a signed copy of President Monson's biography. It was funny because Tim, Steven's brother, was talking all about the same book and that he had gotten it that morning and was loving reading it. Steven had some fun rubbing it in that we had a signed copy.

Then we went to see Tron with Steven's family (left the kids with Grandma Heumann) and then swapped out babysitters and all the grown ups when to see True Grit. After that it was time for Christmas dinner at the Heumann's. That's not something we generally do but with David and Stephanie in town we wanted to spend as much time together as we could. Then it was back home for bed. I felt bad that the kids didn't have much time at home with their toys but they did have a great day with their cousins.