Christmas at Home

Since we are going to Virginia this year for Christmas, we decided to open our family presents before we go. Tonight after dinner we had the kids open their presents from each other. Nathan got a football, Benjamin got a basketball, Joshua was excited to open his first-ever bakugan, and Elizabeth was in love with the vacuum she got from her brothers! They also opened presents from Mom and Dad: board games for the boys and file folder activities for Elizabeth.

Nathan got a Rubik's slide

After a little play time, we headed down the street to the Myers to decorate cookies. They were amazing hosts, with tons of cookies, frosting, sprinkles, different delicious cookies to eat, and a candy cane mouse craft! We had a great time!

When we came home, we told the kids they needed to get all ready for bed before they could play more. To their surprise, when they came downstairs to play there were lots of presents "under" the tree to open!

Elizabeth was too busy doing this to be in the above picture:

We all had fun opening the gifts sent by Grandma and Grandpa Partridge. The favorites were:

Elizabeth's ride-on toyher "baby"

Joshua's V-Smile and skates
Benjamin's roller skates
Nathan's bakugan skateboard

It's a good thing that tomorrow is only a half day of school and that it is a party day. Everyone went to bed exhausted from all of the fun of the evening!

The aftermath . . . it took Ryan and I a LONG time to clean up!

Tomorrow night we will open the gifts from Ryan's grandparents before we leave for Virginia the next morning. It is fun to be able to spread out Christmas over a week or so!