We left the day after Christmas for Utah and returned home just in time to return to work. This is the first moment I've had to blog about Christmas day. Now that my excuse has been rendered - here are some pictures of our festivities!
Christmas Eve started a new tradition for us. Normally we travel to Granada Hills for Christmas Eve and spend the night. This year Grandma and Grandpa Fong came to our house for a visit. We ate Chinese for dinner and then made a stop at Bob and Jill Peterson's house for their annual Christmas Eve bash. We've never been in town to attend their party and the kids had fun running all over with Jill's boys. Dan spent the evening talking to Bob and I chatted with all the girls!
On Christmas morning Jared and Liz were up around 6:15 AM. Their grandparents were asleep where all the presents were so the kids had to wait for a bit in our bedroom. The waiting was torture for them! When Dan and I thought they were going to implode, Dan went out to see if we could release them. We had left one gift unwrapped and the rest wrapped - it was fun to see them race to their open gifts and immediately begin playing. Liz received 4 dress-up costumes and Jared received a hulk costume and battle gear.
Here they are trying on their costumes:
And here is Jared trying out his moves with his new battle gear:
Eventually we convinced them that there might be even cooler things hidden in the wrapped gifts! The first gift was something Jared made in school for Mom and Dad. Our first homemade gift from a child! I was very impressed (must be my first one!!).
Then the wrapping paper began flying! Here are a few favorite gifts:
A couple of hours into our adventure Lucas decided to join us (lucky kid slept in!). He had a lot of work to do to catch up with his siblings. Mostly he enjoyed eating the wrapping paper and his presents.
Not to be forgotten, Danny received mostly Lakers themed presents:
Phew! It was a fun morning!!! Here are a few final shots of the kids enjoying their presents; Jared playing with floam, Lucas with his first dolly, and a shot of Liz's underwear. Yep, underwear. She received a huge pack and promptly put on ALL of the pairs. She could barely move but left them on for a long time! I'll save the shot of her wearing them for her personal blog.
Merry Christmas!
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