Christmas has come and gone!!

I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone already! It always goes by way too fast! We had a nice, but different than usual Christmas. This was the first year we didn't travel somewhere on Christmas Day or before. We stayed home for Christmas. We decided to let the boys enjoy and play with all of their new things. Christmas Eve we went to breakfast. Then I went and got the boys some sleds so they could sled on the mini hill at the park. I really mean mini, but they had a lot of fun! Then for dinner we cooked a ham and had a nice dinner. Christmas morning the boys slept in until 8 and so that was really nice. So of course they got up and opened presents. Jalen was happy to get a nintendo ds. Which was the only thing he wanted. Landon only asked for a buzz lightyear gun and a piano. We also decied to get him a kids digital camera so then maybe he would leave ours alone. It has been a hit! I think that he has taken about 200 pictures already. It also does little videos. He just loves it. His keyboard didn't work and so we had to exchange it. Landon was so excited about all his gifts he would squeal when he opened them. Jalen was much calmer. We asked him later on if he liked his ds because he didn't seem that excited when he opened it. He told us he didn't want to get too hyper! Kids are so funny sometimes! We had a nice Christmas morning and the snow kept coming. We have gotten a lot over the last week. Later on Christmas day after the kids played for a while we decided to go to the movies. The boys wanted to see The Tale of Despereaux. That wasn't our first choice, but anything for the kids right?? It was alright. The boys liked it. Apparently I was snoring. I woke up and Sean was laughing at me. Hopefully I didn't disturb the person next to me. OOPS! We spent the rest of the day at home. It was nice and relaxing and probably a good thing we didn't plan to travel because of all the snow! Today things have been better. The roads were clear and the snow had slowed down. We of course had to do some exchanges. I got Sean a pair of jeans that were apparently metrosexual! He tried them on and I think we both laughed and I told him to take them off quick. Now I know that Bootcut are not his style. Always go with the loose. Then to walmart for the boys to blow the gift cards they got from Grandma and Grandpa. Landon got a little einsteins rocket and Jalen got the club penquin ds game. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa! Then off to take the piano back for one that worked and on to the mall! Tonight we took down the tree. I still can't believe how many needles were on the floor, and to the door and all over the sidewalk. The tree left a thick trail of needles all the way to the car! I had to empty the vacuum three times while vacuuming. We may be finding needles for weeks to come.

Here is a video of Jalens Christmas program at school. We hardly got to see Jalen the whole program because he had his song book in front of his face the whole time!!

This really doesn't show all the needles, but you get the idea!

This is the boys playing in all the snow we had. This was before the last storm. We got even more!

Here is one of the 200 pics Landon took with his new camera. Not bad!

Here is another of Landons pictures. Dad has been doing a lot of this lately!