Christmas Eve/Day 2011

On Christmas Eve we spent time with the Brian and Kendra McMullin and the Tom and Kellie Bogardus families.  The food, mediterranean cuisine, was fantastic, and the kids had such a blast.  For the live nativity, Douglas was a shepherd and Dottie was the angel.

Little Shepherd Boy

Angel with a Plug 

Missing from this scene is the cat, Cooper, as baby Jesus.

The shepherd spent a lot of time putting Linus into an SUV.

The grumpy angel wasn't too interested.

Christmas morning was a funny affair because Douglas was NOT excited to be woken up early without the benefit of pancakes.  Eventually he sort of got excited but not really.  The big Santa present we opened before church was a play kitchen Ryan and I built for the kids.  (Read: Ryan built, Sarah painted.)

As the grown-ups disappeared to get dressed for church, we realized it got awfully quiet in the living room and assumed the kids were digging into presents.  Nope!  They were taking ornaments and candy canes off the tree, which they realized was finally free of its gate.

Timer family pictures are epic.

After church we came home and opened more gifts, which Douglas was much more happy to do on a full stomach and mostly awake.

He liked Dot's new dolly and kept saying, "Baby!" while he "helped" her open it.

His favorite present of the morning, a model Mustang from Santa.

Ryan showing off one of his new flags for his classroom. 

There are a lot more pictures of presents being opened and played with, but you get the idea.  We spent the afternoon with our friends the Harrisons eating WAY too much junk food while the kids showed off new toys.  The evening was full of phone calls and Skypes to friends and family far away.  Duggle opened his next favorite present, a new hat from Beck and Leo that he hasn't taken off since.

It was a fun fun weekend! 

Hat + Car = HAPPY

Hope everyone had as wonderful a Christmas as we did!