Christmas Day

Christmas day began at 5:45 when I heard Paul (19 years old) in the baby monitor trying to wake Faith up to go see what Santa had put in her stocking. Thank goodness he was not successful in waking her! He insisted it was family tradition that the kids be up before the sun to open stockings! We did finally wake her around 7:00


and as she was waking up sitting in my lap on her bed we were telling her it was Christmas day, she looked around the room, blank stare and said ... "now what?" It was not long before she figured out ...'what'! We had a great day with my Mom and Dad and Uncle Jim here for the day. She had lots of presents to open and enjoyed having Grammie here to read to her whenever she asked! Her favorite gifts seemed to be her toy blender and mixer from her brothers for her toy kitchen. Paul got some more climbing gear for work and Ben was excited to get some new Chef's knives. I got a new ipod and now need to get the boys to each me how to work it! Steve got me a new food processor and now Ben and I are looking for things to chop and shred in the kitchen! The boys got Steve a new cordless circular saw which he is looking forward to using. We finished up the day with a big turkey dinner with all the fixin's and Grandmas apple pie for dessert!