Hope you had a GREAT CHRISTMAS!

It is hard to believe that Christmas has come and gone once again. We had a wonderful weekend. I spent all day Friday cleaning the house. On Saturday my mother-in-law and her husband arrived. We stayed up late wrapping presents for the kids and setting up the Geo-Trax set that we purchased for the kids. That took until 4 a.m. On Christmas Eve we had our Christmas with them. The kids were excited about having them here and opening gifts of course. Kinnick did not want to open gifts. All of the excitement was too much for him. It really threw him "for a loop". I felt terrible for him. When we were done opening gifts we had chicken noodle soup, chili and ham sandwiches. The kids were tracking Santa on the NORAD website and were excited when they saw he was in the United States. We got the milk and cookies out for Santa and then Carter asked if we had carrots for the reindeer. We did not have any so we decided to leave an apple for Rudolph. They went right to bed after that and we did not hear a peep out of them. We got the gifts out and by the time all of that was done I was more than ready for bed. The kids got up around 8:30 a.m. Christmas morning and were ready to open gifts right away. Some of the presents were wrapped and some were not. Once again Kinnick did not want to open his gifts. He was frustrated with all of the excitement and noise. When the gifts were all open Adam's mom and Doug got ready to leave for Carroll to see Grandpa Adkins. Adam and I spent most of the day taking the toys out of the boxes. THAT TAKES FOREVER! The boys took a nap and when they got up we headed into my mom and dad's house to have Christmas with them. We opened gifts, had snacks and watched football. It was fun and the kids got more fun stuff to play with. They spent all day yesterday and today very entertained by all the new things they got! This weekend we will go to have Christmas with Adam's family and will need to be back here Sunday afternoon for the Simonson christmas. BUSY! We will ring in the new year at home with our children. If we stay up that late....

Well, I will try and get some pictures emailed out tomorrow for you to see. Love, Steph