Christmas Morning

We celebrated Christmas a few times, like we usually do. Our small family Christmas is usually a day or two before the real one, even though ours feels like the real one. ;) The kids didn't wake up until 8:00 am so that was nice. They all clambered onto our bed and begged to go see the gifts Santa had left. 

   

 

The kids discovered new suitcases and a picture of the Disney Cruise inside of it.... and a special booklet about their trip. I think we were pretty obvious about it all, er, I mean Santa was... but only June really seemed to grasp what was going on. She was flabbergasted at her siblings, who were more interested in the cotton candy and the rolling suit case. 

 

Because of Winter's school situation right now, she is unable to go with us on the cruise. 😞 But to make up for this sadness, Santa got her laser hair removal for her legs, which is one of her dreams. So she was very excited.

Then we opened our other gifts. And maybe one day I'll tell you all about how brilliant and resourceful I was, but just know that that I managed to give the kids all some fun gifts, even though Santa drained our budget. ;)

I had this fun idea to take photos of the kids with their new gifts but as I put together this blog post, I realized that I totally forgot after I got a photo of Johnny and Rose. 😅 But whatever, here are those two photos. 

We had a great morning and day. Then we packed up and left for Boise the next morning, on the real Christmas Eve. :)