Christmas Day

So, Anna is not really a morning person.  On Christmas morning I woke up around 7am and was so excited I couldn't sleep another wink.  Grandma Ann was up and Michelle I think.  Then Aunt Cyndi got up.  Pretty soon we were all up except Anna.  We were trying to be quiet and let her sleep (she is very grouchy on low sleep).  But, around 8 she was stumbling to the bathroom when Cyndi ran into her and said, "Anna, should we go and see if Santa Claus came last night?"  Anna replied, "No, I have to go potty and I'm going back to sleep.  He isn't coming until tonight Aunt Cyndi."  It was so funny!  We had to convince her to walk down the hall and check.  She was not at all convinced when she saw the room full of presents (Maybe there were already too many presents around the tree?).  But, when she saw the empty cookie plate and milk glass she suddenly caught on.  She ran around the house announcing that Santa Claus had come.  She would drag the new person to the plate and point exclaiming, "see, he came, he ate all the cookies!"

And so Christmas finally began.

We opened presents forever it seemed.

My family makes everyone takes turns so you can see each other open their presents.  She was a trooper, and took her turn.  She really loved searching through the presents for hers.

  She got more wonderful toys and presents from everyone than she can play with

including a pink princess bike (which she was very excited to get, but hesitant to actually ride).

  Anna gave Daddy pens (completely her idea),

and Mommy a necklace (also completely her idea). {A little side story here.  For weeks Anna has been noticing that many people wear a necklace with a baby T on it.  Then she noticed there were lots of buildings with baby T's on them.  We thought it was so funny we didn't correct her.  Well, when Daddy took her to buy me a necklace she told him she thought I would like a baby T necklace-Daddy had to talk her into the butterfly-that is why we are laughing in this picture.}

  Everybody had fun surprises. We gave Michelle some foot products that went along with a story she had told us about her roommates at BYU-I

Todd got an autographed book from Michelle.

Grandma Ann got her favorite chocolates from Grandpa.  

Renato and the boys all got a ratchet set.  

Camille's big surprise was an ipod.  

Cyndi was most excited about her mattress cover-go figure.  

Laurie was thrilled with her new toy.  

Grandpa is enjoying one of his favorite gifts, a new spy book.

We had a delicious dinner, went for a walk,

and played with toys the rest of the day.

  It was a very relaxing and enjoyable Christmas Day