Christmas Day

It was a Christmas Miracle!

Brian and I woke up, on our own, at 7:20 a.m.  It was then that we realized we had better get our booties in gear to get ourselves all situated (teeth brushed, faces washed, breakfast casserole in the oven, etc) before the kids woke up & Christmas began.  

Maggie got up a few minutes later, then Colin woke up when we were jingling some bells outside his door, which in the past, he would hear and say "Santa's coming!"

Usually Colin will give us hugs and kisses in the morning before he comes out of his room.  Not this morning.

He bolted past us, down the hall, straight for the Christmas tree.  He wanted to see if Santa had been here.

Santa brought the kids each a Pillow Pet and got Colin a Thomas train set.

Colin quickly checked out the train set...

Then headed over to make sure Santa drank his milk and ate the cookies.

There were a few crumbs... Santa must've been in a hurry because he was quite messy!

And...there were 3 tickets for Colin, Mommy & Daddy to go see Sesame Street Live on January 29th that Santa brought.  Colin wasn't so excited about them that morning, but he will be in about a month or so!

Maggie was checking out her Pillow Pet.  She especially liked the tag!

Maggie had to open her gifts pretty quickly so she could get down for her morning nap.  Colin helped her out and was really great about sharing the gifts.

Maggie with her Bumble Ball (which used to be Colin's bumble ball, that was in storage for over a year, so it was like a brand new toy for everyone!)

Colin picked out a baby doll for Maggie.  

She thought the foot was tasty!

My new slipper socks that Colin and Daddy got me.  I also got a really pretty new scarf, a hairdryer, a bottle of Baileys, and a fantastic personalized calendar that Brian made for me. I started crying when I looked at it, so very thoughtful of him.  Plus, there were pictures of Jake on the calendar and Colin explained to me how he used to walk Jake and would say "come on Jake" and that he's in heaven now.  

So sweet!

Santa left us some scratcher lottery tickets in our stockings.  Brian ended up the big winner with winning $10!  Way to go Brian!

He got a new baseball glove, a bottle of Crown Royal Black, some KC royals baseball cups, and some BluRay movies.

After our morning at home, we headed to Grammie & Grandad's to see the rest of the Teson family (minus Scott & Suzanne's family, boo hoo!).  Colin and Olivia had a blast playing in Olivia's princess tent.

Michael got his first piece of Mizzou apparel from the family.

He has officially converted...

While the kids were napping, we played a great game of Wits & Wagers!

Chris and Caitlin playing with the babies.

Colin and Olivia opening up their gifts from the Tesons.  

Colin got some new jammies, a few puzzles, a few books, a new Cars chair, a really cool cars (build a road) play set.  We busted that out the next morning and Colin literally played with it for the entire day.  We had to switch out batteries for the cars twice that same day, he used them so much.  It was a hit!

Maggie got some jammies, a couple ornaments, and a teacup play set.

It was a wonderful Christmas weekend!

We are headed to Topeka next weekend to celebrate with the Dudley side.  We can't wait to see everyone there.