Christmas morning...

  is always so magical!

We woke up at 7 and were in heaven the whole day!

"LOVE" these excited faces, waiting to come down the stairs together.

the cutest thing was ivy asking "where was buddy?" our elf.
he is now back with Santa at the north pole.
we loved looking for buddy everyday!

santa ate our cookies and even left a note answering the questions from the kids note to him.

boston and his awesome new ski's!
this kid has turned into quite the skier, we love that he was excited to get these babies!

i love looking at these pictures and dying over all the bedhead. love it! 

especially miss "curly twirls"

 she has some serious bedhead with her curls...

livi has said, that all she wanted was a dsi and a harmonica, and santa surprised her at the bottom of

her stocking with a harmonica, and we are all loving this present! ~not! haha

i love watching hayes open his presents, he opens one and plays with it for a while and then opens another and another until finally we are reminding him to open more presents. 

he's hilarious!

santa always send the kids on a 'treasure hunt' for another present.  

This year they kinda forgot about it, but it was in Livi's stocking and they were all so excited!!  

look at Hayes' face.  LOVE how excited he is to be getting a dsi game, while livi and boston are reading the first clue to the hunt...

the 'treasure hunt' sent them all over the house with 4 clues... then landed them in the front room where they found all their electronic toys!! 

Santa even brought ivy her own iphone ~wink {it's a 'hand me down' itouch customed to her!} 

Boston got the very amazing & oh so fun xbox Kinect and livi and hayes got their own dsi's!  

were are all now in 'video game' coma's...seriously!

we made yummy scones with powdered sugar for breakfast!

YUM!

Played many games of "old maid" and "toy story yahtzee" and  enjoyed a nice nap

 while kids were in toy heaven!

 we went to the movies with the Carson's to see this. 

then to Nana's and Papa's for some fun games of "mafia" and delcious ham and rolls!

love this time of year!

love being with so much family!

love that my kids thought of something to give to Jesus for his Birthday! 

love my darling family...

feeling extremely blessed and very very loved!