Christmas

We had a WONDERFUL Christmas! We're so tired we can barely keep our eyes open, probably from staying up 'til at least 2 am just about EVERY night for the last week, working on that dollhouse. But it was well worth it.

First we had our Dad's birthday ping pong tournament/Christmas Eve gift opening at Dad and Trudi's. Here's a picture that is completely unrelated to ping pong, but IS cute and WAS taken during the tournament.
I believe Dad and Skifter were the ping pong champs. But barely. Dad also received a cow patty clock, but unfortunately I never got a picture of it. I did, however, dry-heave when I got too close to it.

There were naps.
There was also this awesome picture of the lovebirds looking like they're trying to act normal while feeling slightly alarmed.
Cason and Paige scored lots of awesome gifts from their aunts and uncles. LOTS.
We got this picture of the family, which is especially cute in that bottom row.
Today we got the babies up at 8 am, which was apparently way too early. They WERE up pretty late. Cason just kept right on sleeping while Jess held him. Jess kept changing his position, trying to wake him up, but he'd just slump back over. Paige kept sleeping when we put her on the couch. I was videotaping and Jess said "LOOK Paige! Santa brought you presents!" She didn't even open her eyes and said "NO! I'm STILL SLEEPING."

So we decided to just open our gifts to each other, like my cute little egg holder thing Jess got me...
...so they'd hear the unwrapping and get excited. It did work, actually. They each had just a few gifts. Cason's big one was a remote control Land Rover, and he's a fan. Paige's was of course her dollhouse. We first had her open the little mama and Paige dolls we bought for it. She was so happy when we brought the dollhouse out. Especially when she realized I sewed a little bedspread and pillows for the bed so she could tuck the dolls in. She didn't want to leave because she wanted to play with it, she said. Success!

We had lots of fun with our families all day long.
I was so excited to finally give Dan and Veronica these pictures we took of Lily WEEKS ago. I had Dan's mom kidnap Lily and meet us for a secret photo shoot, where we dressed her up and got these cute ones of her. Lily's tough to get genuinely happy smiles from, so I was pumped that Jess was off that day and got these out of her:

And my favorite:
Finally one of all three for the grandparents:
Now then, we decided to start a tradition and read the sweetest book about the birth of baby Jesus, but our babies fell asleep on the drive home. We're not gonna let it stop us though, so we're off to read to our sleeping offspring. Merry CHRISTmas!