Christmas day!!

I have to say that this Christmas was so much better than last years. Last year we were up at 4am. getting ready for our move to Vienna. This year we actually got to sleep in till 7am. I think Nathan was up at 5am. I feel so bad because I didn't get any pictures of our traditional Christmas Eve night. We couldn't find our camera but Darrell and Dyann, Christopher and Lesa came over and all of us had so much fun!! But Christmas morning started with Nathan and Emily at the top of the stairs waiting to come down to open presents.

Look at how excited Nathan is.

Nathan got the xbox 360 World Tour package. It's a good thing he helped me order it because I just about ordered Rock Band and that was the WRONG one. oops. Emily got some DS games and also her and Steve got tickets to see the Broadway play "Wicked" that is coming here in April.

Steve got me a cool hat but it's what's on the ears that is even better. He gave me some RUBY earrings to match the ruby necklace he gave me for my birthday. He's a real sweetie and a keeper!!!

Timothy and Jess came over for breakfast and also in an email broke the great news that they are going to have a cute little baby in July!!! We are so excited for them!!! Steve made some delicious Swedish pancakes and we had a ton of bacon.

While Jess and Emily played Foosball Timothy and Nathan were on the xbox.

That afternoon Christopher and Lesa came over for dinner. Emily played Foosball with Lesa and the guys went into the backyard to have a friendly game of sword fighting.

Another high point to the day was all of us got to talk with Jaron. It was so great to hear his voice and it was a wonderful Christmas present for all of us. We all miss him so much!!!

We finished up the day with all of them playing World Tour on the xbox. Christopher and Lesa on guitars, Emily on drums and Nathan singing......yeah, I said Nathan singing. It was a fun and relaxing Christmas. And the best part about it was being with family!!!!