Christmas

 Merry Christmas!  It was a happy day!  Maddie woke up first (of course).  She and Mike headed downstairs to get the coffee going.  I came down and started getting breakfast ready.  Grandma and Grandpa Farm come up from the basement and then Grandma Jeanne, Mark, and GiGi arrived.  We were all in attendance and ready to roll.  We thought Maddie would have to go upstairs and wake up the big kids, but she didn't.  They made it down by themselves and it was time to open presents.  

Peyton's presents included, a new phone, a makeup subscription, and clothes.  

Jack's presents were clothes, shoes, a baseball necklace, and a new phone.

Maddie got a new pretend dental kit, arts and crafts, jewelry making stuff, and an air track.  It was such a BUMMER!!!  Her big present, the air track was torture.  Her knee was still injured so she wasn't able to jump or flip around on it at all.  She still wanted to get it set up.  So Mike set it up and we let her play on it for just a few minutes and then off she came.  

After all the kids opened their stuff the adults opened their gifts.  Now, lets talk about my gift for a minute.  Background: every time we get family pictures we have the photographer take a picture of us all walking from behind.  This started as one of our wedding photos and then as our family has grown so have the photos.  Mike blew all of them up and framed them all.  Mike and each kid gave me one and before they each gave me one, they sang me a song (this was an add on from Maddie's songs she made everyone last year).  It was funny and great!!  There were lots of ripping on mom and dad in the songs.  I taped each song to the back of the pictures.  They will be funny to read one day.  Mark made a YouTube of it as well.

We then all had breakfast.  After breakfast the kids all went off and started playing with their new stuff, Mark, Grandma Jeanne, and GiGi headed home, Grandpa and Grandma Farm headed out to Warrenton, and Mike and I started taking down the Christmas stuff.  Party is over.....time to get this house cleaned up!!

Daisy made the biggest mess she has EVER made!!!!!!  And wasted a lot of toilet paper too!!!