Christmas!

This was probably one of the best Christmases (?) ever. We woke up, had some orange rolls, went to church for a Christmas Singing Program, came home and started unwrapping presents. After each tiny piece of paper Lincoln would tear off, he had to run in the kitchen to throw it away yelling "trash, trash!". So finally, we just brought the trash can in the living room and that kept him happy and a little bit faster. His preferred method of opening presents is with his teeth by the way. After that, we ran over to nathan's parents house and did some presents there, then came back to our house and my parents and grandma came for a visit. I made my parents a cute little doorway puppet theater and 2 puppets of themselves. I forgot to take a picture of that though. I can just imagine all the kids loving putting on puppet shows at my parents house, and them preparing shows for us. It will be a good time. Lincoln is in love with the whistles that great grandma got him and LOVES the mr. potato head set grandma got him. He loves hats and shoes, so he's in heaven getting to put them on a potato. Once they left, we went back to nathan's parents house and hung out all. We played games and had a great time. I love Christmas even more after having kids. I loved watching Lincoln open up everything and just getting so excited. Next year I'm sure will be even more awesome when London can get in on the action!!

Christmas Eve, opening his Christmas motorcycle jammies.

Christmas Day! His first present, trumpette the boucy cow!
My cute little girl just watching all the fun

Showing dad his alligator sleeping bag/pillow thing

This was a set of 4 puppets, and he had to kiss each one of them before putting them down.
Only a tiny portion of all his loot!
yup. coal. that's right. I'm "that" mom that will always give my kids coal.
my new kitchenaide mixer!!!! hurray! i've wanted one of these for so long. Nathan was super tricky about it too. Made me open a bunch of boxes to get it. Each box was numbered. I got the paper of package 1, and I said, "I'm going to need a knife to open the box". Nathan said flip the box over, and in sharpie he had written "there is a knife on top of the piano." He's so clever. So I open that one, and there is a bunch of trash and a piece of paper that says "there is nothing in this box. open number 2." I got the paper off number 2, then the outside of the box said in sharpie "stop opening this one now and go to box 3 & 4" So I open box 3 and there is another box inside of that called 4. I open box 4 and it says on a piece of paper "Go play the piano." Well, cleverly he had cleaned all my books off the piano the night before so I had to open the bench to get a book, and he had hidden the mixer in the piano bench! It's pretty sweet. I plan to get nice and fat making goodies with that thing. hehe
Grandma holding adorable london.
Great Grandma came by and gave Lincoln some whistles.
I love this picture! Nathan always opens his mouth when he feeds someone so I think it's hilarious :)

Grandpa (in his traditional santa suspenders) with London