Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone! Although we are away from all of our family, we still had a pretty good celebration. Growing up we always opened our gifts on Christmas Eve and saved Christmas day for whatever "Santa" brought us. I have carried the tradition on with my kids except this year, Paul let them have their big "Santa" gift tonight with everything else, lol Now tomorrow morning they will only have their stockings to open but maybe they will let us sleep in a little bit! (Haha yeah right!)

The first bunch of pics I took today while the kids I baked TONS of cookies. We did sugar & gingerbread & the kids had a blast cutting them out & decorating.

rolling out the sugar cookies & cutting the dough out
Aidyn working really hard to make sure the cookie turned out perfect

The cookie on your left is a gun Madi made & the one on the right is a sword

All the cookies we made

Another view of the cookies

Aidyn getting ready to open his first gift

Realizing what it was (its a remote control car thingy that you put on any matchbox or hotwheels car to make them remote control)

Aidyn just being silly & making a goofy face

Madi holding up a gift

Awww she got a Littlest Pet Shop VIP stuffed animal to add to her collection

Another goofy look

The 555 piece art set they both got

New scooter to replace the one that was stolen of his

Same for Madi, hers was also taken from school

getting ready to open the gift below

WooHoo the color explosion I have been bugging for!

Madi with her color explosion (they both wanted it sooooo bad!)

Madi with her new sketch pad so she can have lots of paper to work with

Getting ready to open his biggest box

The new Nerf long gun

Madi with all of her gifts

Aidyn with all of his gifts

Aidyn lining up his sight (he was actually aiming for one of the cats, lol)

Madi with her "Santa" gift. Its a MP3, video player, digital camera & camcorder all in one.

Once she realized what all the gift could do

Aidyn with his "santa" gift (guitar hero 3)