Christmas 2008

Since we only have Dylan for a week, we decided to move up Christmas so that he could have time to play with his presents. That being said, Christmas this year occurred on December 23rd.

It's official .... we've now reached the age that Christmas starts EARLY~ as in 4:45 am. I woke up to Brennan, Dylan and Nolan all crawling into bed to tell me that Santa had come. The looks of excitement on their little faces was too cute. It's the only thing that motivated me to get out of bed. When we got upstairs, the shouts of joy (and I mean TRUE joy~ the kind that comes from believing in Santa) were what made my morning. Forget the receiving~ the warm fuzzies come from giving (oh, that's mom coming out!).

After spending the week prior doing all of the wrapping... hours and hours of work were thrown about the floor in 30 min. Oh, well. Santa was really good to the boys this year. Brennan got nearly everything he wanted... Wii games, DS games, Board games, Legos, Pixos, Matchbox rockets, an Air hog, a scooter. Everything except Bakugans. Sad! Dylan got Spike the Dinosaur, a pirate ship, a castle, an Air hog, Wii games, a doctors kit and a bob bag. Nolan got Elmo Live, Elmo's restaurant, cars, cars, and more cars. Bet you can't guess what he LOVES more than anything! Here are some pictures from Christmas Morning.

Nolan LOVES Elmo! He was absolutely entranced with him.
Brennan and his Legos... Coming from the diaper box Santa had to borrow. When he first unwrapped it, he said "This isn't mine. It's Nolan's. Santa got it wrong. I didn't ask for diapers!"
Dylan and his Castle & Viking Ship
Notice the triumphant stance and raised present of Pixos. It's something he's wanted since he first saw the ad for them way back in April/May.

Nolan and his Elmo Cars
Gigi and Nolan playing with his Elmo Restaurant~ one of the most popular toys of Christmas (all the boys enjoyed playing with it)
Nolan and his new cars and car mat
Dr. Dylan (my idea! I even embroidered his name on the coat)
Don and Brennan playing with his new Matchbox Rocket
Nolan with Elmo again...I have like 10 different pictures of him playing with it. He really loves it!
Brennan and Dylan playing with Spike the Dinosaur. It is a really cool remote control dinosaur.
Dylan making Spike eat what Brennan is trying to feed him.
Don and Brennan playing the new Wii game "Star Wars: Light Saber Duals"
The light sabers really glow!

After a few hours of playing, everyone decided that they were hungry, so we decided that since it wasn't really Christmas day and restaurants were open, we would go to Mimi's for breakfast. I kind of like celebrating Christmas early!