Aaron told the boys that they couldn't come out of their rooms Christmas morning until 7am. They said they wanted to eat breakfast before they opened presents. Does this tell you how important food is to these kids?
That morning was freezing. I woke up to go run and there was a frostbite warning...it was like 7 degrees with the wind chill. I still ran outside and it was not a fun run and I was the only fool outside...I think the whole week since it was cold the whole week.
I had cinnamon rolls ready at 7am. The kids woke up around 5:30, but played in their rooms. They were really excited. We ate breakfast after waking up Aaron, then we opened presents.
We have a tradition in our family called Ninja Service. (By the way both my kids told their teachers about this tradition and both teachers asked me more about it because they love the idea and want to do it next year.) Each Sunday during our FHE we draw a name of a family member. For a week we do acts of service for that family member, but are secret about it...like a ninja. We then put a tally mark on our ninja service chart. The following Sunday we guess who had our name and then we draw a new name. The person who has the most tally marks gets to open the first present on Christmas, then the person with 2nd most goes next, etc. We watch everyone open gifts..one at a time because I think it is ridiculous when everyone opens all the gifts at the same time and no one sees what everyone else got and doesn't get to see their facial expressions when they open the gifts. The kids were super pumped this year to get the most tally marks so they did great on doing acts of service. They did tie this year, so they opened (an by open I mean pick up from the chair since I didn't wrap them) the scooters from Uncle Robert and Aunt Sarah.
Dylan got brain flakes from Uncle Trevor and Aunt Meesa and family. If you haven't heard of brain flakes..check them out...they are a lot of fun!
They gave Blake a ton of books. He was in heaven. He was so impressed that they knew the exact books that he wanted.
The boys buy one gift for their brother. Blake bought Dylan red legos.
Dylan bought Blake an Imaginext Batman.
Uncle James and Aunt Shannon got a book for Dylan
and one for Blake. They love these books. Superhero books...can't go wrong with those.
My Grandma sent them some money.
Aaron's folks also sent all of us money.
My parents got the boys this remote control car that goes in water too. That wanted to go check it out in the pool until they realized how cold it was outside. We played with it inside the house instead.
They also gave them this cool lego set. This was the first thing they played with.
Uncle David, Aunt Kristi and kids gave them these Dude Perfect games. They love DP so this was perfect. They play with these all the time.
Robert and Sarah also sent this cool lego set for the family.
Our big family gift is a ski trip to Colorado for Spring Break. The kids were really excited.
They got changed and then realized they hadn't looked at their stockings.
Love having a playroom for them to play with all their new awesome toys.
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