Christmas morning Gibson got up about 7:30 am and came to our room and said “I don’t think Santa came because I didn’t hear him”. Gregg told him that he heard him last night and that we should go downstairs and check! So, we got things together, got the little boys up (they were still sleeping!) and we headed downstairs. Gibson and Grady immediately found their Santa presents. Santa doesn’t wrap at our house, so the kids immediately saw what they got. Both of them LOVED their presents. Grady got a garage and Gibson got some walkie talkies. 
We shifted the kids focus to their stockings. When I was a kid, we always did our stockings first. The older boys each got some socks, a toothbrush, a comb, one small toy and some tootsie rolls. I think the boys would have been ok with just a stocking….they thought that was fun. I didn’t get a stocking for Garrison in time, this year, but he has one now! Gregg and I had some chocolate in our stockings. 
Back to presents under the tree! The boys each got 2 presents from us. Gibson got some Star Wars Legos and Grady got a book and some dinosaurs. The kids also opened some presents that my friend, Bridget, sent from California. They got some little toys and each a fun shirt. Grady’s is my favorite, it says “My Mommy has Super Powers”. We also had some books from another friend! The kids made out like bandits this year. It was so fun to watch them open presents, Gibson really got the whole present thing this year. He also go the reason for Christmas and talked a lot about us celebrating Jesus’ birthday. 
Putting together the legos. Gregg spent about 2 hours on that task. He won the Daddy Award for the day, for sure! 
We got the kids a DVD of an aquarium. It’s called a “living aquarium”. The kids were mesmerized by the scenes.
Happy Halloween
10 years ago
