Merry Christmas!

It's only 9:10am on Christmas morning and we're exhausted!

According to Jackson, this has been a '2-thumbs-up' kinda day!

Up @ 6:30am, all presents opened by 6:50, now just 'getting to know everything.'

This is our tree with all the presents under it, once Santa already stopped @ our house.

Jude opening the ABC photo album/scrapbook I made for him! I made one for Jackson when he was 3 and Jude just loves looking through it, so I got the idea this year to make him his own book. He loves to look @ scrapbooks, so he was pretty excited to get this (and I was pretty excited to make it)!

Jackson opening his Vectron - it's a little dome-shaped toy that floats in the air and when it comes down, you put your hand under it and it goes back up. Forgot to get the batteries (oooops). At least he'll have something else to play with when his other toys wear out their excitement.

Jude drinking his juice out of our Christmas Vacation moose mug!

You guessed it - Jackson vegging in our bed with his new Nintendo DS (and Super Mario Brothers game). See ya sometime next year Jack........

All is said and done, not looking too bad for the hurricane that whipped through this morning.



So here's what the kiddos got from Santa:

Jackson: Nintendo DSi, 2 DS games, Vectron, 2 Lego sets, a warm-up outfit, Diary of A Whimpy Kid card game, Hot Wheels card game, Perfection, Guess Who Mix-n-Mash.

Jude: Scrapbook, Jackson's Nintendo DS (Jackson gave it to him), Caillou DVD, I Spy DVD, Wonder Pets DS game, a tanker fire truck (that Jeremy built), new dancing shorts, unders, a DS carrying case, fireman toy, Richard Scary's Busytown game.

Jeremy and I always exchange our gifts on Christmas Eve as we're getting the kids' gifts ready. We like Christmas morning to be all about Jackson and Jude.

Jeremy got me subscriptions to Women's Running and Runner's World Magazines (total score), socks (needed desperately), and eco-toothbrush (been wanting one for a long time), PJs and a workout top (again, needed and wanted), a marathon and 1/2 marathon training guide book (watch out), and a gift certificate to get a Road ID band for running (should've gotten one of these a long time ago), and a new navy blue pea coat (he gave it to me yesterday to wear to church). It's amazing how perfect his gifts are to me every year! I'm already using the socks.

I got Jeremy: slippers, 2 sweaters, a sweatshirt and fleece pants, 2 tee shirts, a fleece, 2 magazines, and the John Stewart book Earth.

What a morning! We're getting ready to head next door to Jeremy's parents in an hour. There'll be a ton more mayhem and madness and we're totally looking forward to it! Then it'll be onto my parents house to cap off the craziness!

MERRY CHRISTMAS