Christmas 2019

We had a really wonderful Christmas Eve filled with board games, decorating Christmas cookies, red sweaters for Church, and homemade meatballs with sauce! That evening, we prepared for Santa's arrival by first sprinkling reindeer food on the front lawn!

Step #2 was to put out our sugar cookies with a half glass of milk! Moose said he'd watch it while we put the kids to bed.... he was watching it a little too closely though!

Brent and I settled in to start our Christmas movie tradition - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I was sure Santa was ready to arrive by 10:30 that night, however upon checking to see if the kids were asleep, we found one little boy who was not!! Midnight rolled around.... 12:30AM.... Finally at 1 o'clock, I told Brent to get in his bed with the door closed so Santa could finally arrive!!

#crookedstar

Boys were up at 6:15AM! Good thing we zip-tied the baby gate to the top of the stairs so they wouldn't "accidentally" go down! Smiling happy faces!!

One present before breakfast! Then after breakfast we set up the computer so Grammy & Grandpa could watch the excitement from the comfort of their own couch in Nashville! 

Santa got him the new Dog Man book!!!

Kade was so excited to get his very own Beyblade (it's a spinner thing that battles other spinners and Brock has quite a few).

(Wouldn't hold still long enough for me to get a non-blurry picture!)

Moose got the toy and chew toys out of his stocking and he was SO happy!

Brent and I agreed that we have never seen him play with a toy for as long of a time as he did with that stuffed animal Moose! He loved it!

Mandalorian LEGO set!! (Sidenote it took him 4 days to put this together and it was glorious it took him so long!)

Happy smile!

We love Amazon gift bags!! :)

Super cool car that races up the wall! Thank you Great-Aunt Carol & Great-Uncle Jeff!!

It was one of the first presents to be opened!! (A video showing it off!)

Kade's present from the Kleins - more Star Wars!! A Lego set to go with his Star Wars gap shirt from Mommy & Daddy!

Brent has been eyeing those amazingly huge arcade games!! Santa brought him a mini-Galaga. :)

Brent's present from Brock - an oversized family game of Connect Four!

Super cool gift from Cousin Andrew!! So thoughtful! A fishing log for the boys to share! This way they can keep track of all these amazing fishing trips with their Dad!!

Finally, a gift for Moose - now we will have canvases of all our pups on the wall!

Catch it quick!! A sweet brother-moment of the two!

A wonderful Christmas day filled with happy children, one loved puppy, and two exhausted, but very content parents. Thank you to all of those wonderful Aunts and Uncles and Grandparents who doted on our boys with material presents or gifts for college! We are so blessed!