For the last 16 years (since Clint and I have been together) we have spent Christmas Eve with the Dixson's and Christmas Day with the Petty's.  This year was no different.  We've had 2 fun-filled days of family time, yummy food and presents.  We are blessed.

the 5 boys being boys

Jett was so, so, so, so excited to get a crossbow

Sloan was excited to get the "girl legos" she was wanting

Jaide loved opening presents and was screaming with excitement

Jaide was eating shrimp as fast as Clint would feed it to her

The kids were excited to wake up this morning and see that there were presents for them under the tree.  They said, "Santa even knew how to spell my name."  This may make us sound like bad parents, but this is the first year we have bought the kids presents for Christmas morning.  The past few years, they have been little enough that they haven't cared at all about it, but this year I thought it would be nice for them to have a present to open when they woke up on Christmas morning.  It made me so happy to see their excitement.  We got each of the kids one toy and a blanket.  We got the boys each a transformer and Sloan got a Nerf bow and arrow and Saige got a Nerf gun.  I had all of Clint and my sports t-shirts made into a blanket for each of the kids.  I think they turned out great.  The kids had no interest in them, but I think they'll like them when they get bigger.

The kids got up early enough that there wasn't much light coming in the windows so we had to turn the dining room light on.  And you can see that we still have a blanket fort set up in the living room.

The girls love their "lipstick" that they got yesterday from Ray and Pat.  They have been applying then reapplying then reapplying.

 We went over to Larry and Diane's mid-morning.

Saige and Sloan helping Papa Larry mix the pitchers of koolaid

Again, this kid eating more shrimp