Merry Christmas to All!

We had a fabulous Christmas week!  We started with a day at the theater.  

We always go to the Salt Lake Acting Company's children's theater every December.  This year's play was Frog and Toad Through the Year.  It was excellent!

Here we are on the stage before the show started.

Grandma L. and Uncle Noley & Aunt Christy joined us this year.

We went to visit Grandpa L.'s grave after the play to wish him a Merry Christmas.

Mom had to work a little this week and so we had a "Boy Party" one day.  No pictures are available to prove or disprove anything that may or may not have happened that day!!!

And then - somehow, Christmas day was here.  

Here we are with our eyes closed getting ready to head downstairs for the big morning.

Santa and our family and friends were wonderful to us this year.  

Sam and I each asked for some Skylanders, a camera, a demolition lab, and some chocolate frogs.

Santa came through with everything, plus much much more.

We got rockets and gliders and lots of candy.

We got games and lots and lots of books.

And Sam got a special snow globe made up of lighthouses.  He was so excited!

We gave each other a gift.  Sometimes it is good to have a brother!

Our friend who also happens to be the best babysitter ever gave us some cool Magic Muck!

Uncle Carl & Aunt Francine gave us super cool airplane toys.  Love them!

And Santa must know that I love Geography - he gave me this cool United States floor map.

We ended up having a wonderful pajama day and literally played all day and all night. 

The demolition lab was the big winner of the day - oh and our new cameras captured every minute of every demolition.

It was a wonderful Christmas.  

There was some reading and snuggling up to keep warm.  We meant to take a picture of all the snow we got - but we decided to stay inside and be warm.

See - - - pajamas and demolition labs. . . all day long.  

Thanks to everyone and we hope your Christmas was wonderful too!

Sam Alert:  Hey everyone - One of our family Christmas traditions is to read Christmas stories every night.  We each take a turn reading a story each night.  Our final night's story was The Grinch.  We also love Rudolph and Frosty and Snowmen at Christmas.

Another tradition is to open one present every Christmas eve - and the present was new Christmas jammies.  They are super cool and soft and warm.  

Happy Christmas to all of you!  Catch you next week.