Christmas morning came very early this year. . .
I usually have to wake the kids up by playing music and making lots of noise while brewing my coffee. I don't think we've started opening gifts before 9:00 a.m. since Gloria was little.
Not the case this year, however. Gloria was hoping for a REALLY special gift so she woke me up at 7 a.m. begging to start opening presents. I understand that. I was always the first one up on Christmas Day as a kid so I was willing to get up and get started. Rob and Zach weren't quite as
accommodating, though. We did, finally, start opening around 7:30 but Lucy got to open her gifts first . . .
The kids always open their stocking gifts first. . .
Mrs. Potato Head. . .
I made the mistake of having Zach open a book as his first big gift. We had a difficult time getting him to put it down long enough to open his other presents!
Rob and the kids went all out this year and bought me a bunch of stuff. This blanket was (obviously) one of my favorites!!
Not sure what this is. It was to Gloria from Zach and they seemed to know so I didn't even try to figure it out. . .
I put together a couple of picture frames for Gloria to hang in her room. . .
More fun stuff for me. . .
I've had my eye on this since I found out there was such a thing last summer. It's called a
Dog Bone Socket Wrench. I honestly wanted one!!
Gloria will not be happy about me posting this, so I'll state for the record that it was my idea to buy a Barbie. I've given her a Barbie every Christmas for the last 10 years. It's a habit. And it's fun to buy Barbies. . .
And Zach may be too old for
Legos but I didn't hear him complain about this gift. . .
Rob gets the prize for the strangest gift. He asked me for metric bolts and
phillips head screws in all different sizes. Who does their Christmas shopping at Industrial Hardware?? I do.
He was very happy. . .
Between Rob talking about his nuts and bolts and Zach pointing out interesting facts from his new Star Wars book, Gloria waited and waited for her MAIN gift. . .
She was expecting something BIG. . .
It wasn't big in size but it was exactly what she was hoping for. . .
Zach's main gift was much bigger and he was willing to put the book down long enough to open it up. . .
Guitar Hero, Warriors of Rock for the PS3. . .
It was a good thing we saved the best for last because Gloria didn't pay attention to anything but her phone for the next hour. . .
This is the very first picture she took with her camera phone. I have a feeling there will be many, many more. . .
To say she was happy would be the understatement of the year. . .
The aftermath:
My parent's came over just as we were cleaning up so they could see what the kids unwrapped . . .
Rob was happy to show off his stuff, too. . .
We had a tiny bit of time to look through our loot before heading over to Rob's parent's house. It was kind of hard to pull them away from their stuff. . .
