Opening Presents

I had some fun pictures from opening presents that I didn't want to put in other posts so this post is just that. A post of pictures of opening presents.  Enjoy.

Sperling's:

Gilbert's:

Christmas with the Gilbert's

We had planned to leave Wagoner on December 27 but on the night of the 26th Micah suddenly decided he didn't want to waist a day of his vacation driving.  So at 7:30pm we left Wagoner headed for Houston.  Yes, it was a little crazy but driving at night is so much easier with the less traffic and a sleepy baby.  Jake slept most of the time, he didn't even wake when we would stop.  Of course that meant that at 3:30am when we made it back he thought it was play time. Ohh well. We survived and had the whole next day to be in Houston. 

My sister and her family had already arrived and my brother and his family came that afternoon.  It was so great to get to spend such an extended amount of time with both of them and my parents.  The kids had a blast playing games, playing the wii (so did I), and we even all went to a movie.  December 28 we did our family Christmas and opened presents, took tons of pictures and ate a wonderful meal.  It's so fun to have multiple Christmas's.  

As I mentioned before, we all got dressed and took a ton of pictures.  Here are just a few. 

Nana and Papa with their grandkids

Back: Beau, Wyatt, Maddie Front: Coleton, Bailey, Jake

Silly kids

Whole family

Whole family again

Silly

Love Jake in this!

Brother's family

Sisters family

Parents with their kids

Siblings

We have a Christmas tradition of getting matching PJ's for the girls.  We had some fun taking our matching PJ photos.  After a couple of normal pictures I decided we should do a cheerleader picture.  Enjoy...

"All right girls, here's what were going to do"

We also like to do more of a mass chaos style Christmas gift opening.  I love watching the fun and taking in the joyful chaos.  After it's all over it's fun to sit and look at the mess. 

We had a very blessed Christmas! 

Christmas with the Sperling's

Every year for Christmas we rotate which family we will be with on Christmas Eve and Day.  This year it was Micah's turn to be home for Christmas.  December 19 we made our way north to Wagoner to spend a week with the Sperling family.  Micah's brothers family also joined us in Wagoner and we had a great time playing, eating, talking, and spending quality time together. And of course, opening presents. A couple days before Christmas, Micah's grandparents and a couple uncles families came to spend the day and hang out. I don't get to see Grandma and Grandpa Stucky very often and this was their first time to meet Jake and Evan.  It was so nice to get to see everyone again.

Grandma and Grandpa Stucky with Jake (6 months) and Evan (4 months)

The day the extended family came was a beautiful day.  We spent some time hanging out outside playing games, playing in the dirt (the kids), and playing with Max the dog.  It was so nice to spend some time outdoors before it got too cold.

Once the extended family was gone we spent more time hanging out and opening presents.  We played games, goofed off, made doughnuts, scared the kitty cats, and just generally had a good time.

Christmas Eve we opened a couple presents and got the boys in their matching pjs and took some pictures.  Christmas morning we opened more presents, read the Christmas story, and enjoyed Jacob's first Christmas.   Of course he is a little young to really enjoy Christmas but he did enjoy pulling paper off the presents and then trying to eat it.  Jake was extremely blessed with some great toys including his very own exersaucer. Micah was tricky enough to pull of a surprise gift for me (which I love) and get me a watch I wasn't expecting. Love it!  Micah also decided to start a tradition of getting Jacob legos every year for Christmas.  I'm thinking it's really just an excuse for Micah to play with legos.  What a wonderful Christmas.