Christmas Day!

Christmas Eve...It was a wonderful night enjoying our favorite dinner...YUM! Thanks to Kierra she was able to fit us all in the picture.

Here's to opening all the new pajama's that Grandma Lou and Papi gave to all the million grand kids!

Here are the 8 grandkids that slept over at Shan & Todd's house. It was so darling to see them all lined up there. Let's just say it took about 3 hours to get them ALL to fall asleep...it was 11:47 PM when they were all asleep...just to have Kierra wake up to go to the bathroom at 2:30AM to wake them all up saying, "Santa came...Santa came!" Todd found them all AWAKE talking and chattering with the lights on...AHH thankfully they all at different times dosed off to sleep again.

The famous lining up on the stairs...let's just say it was impossible to get these kids to smile! Oh, and even look at the picture.

Posing in front of the ADORABLE doll house. Alayna is trying to have a happy face for the picture. She still hasn't figured out if she's happy or sad...watch the video below!

Here is a video of what happened when Alayna thought she wasn't given a dollhouse. For the past several weeks Todd was building these dollhouses in our garage. We had to keep the door locked from all the kids so they wouldn't ruin their FUN surprise. how much better does it get than a 6' doll house? Anyways, at one point of locking the garage Alayna raced to the door to sneak a peek...to our surprise the door wasn't locked. I heard Shandra yell..."Alayna, shut that door right now!" I grabbed her and never mentioned what she saw inside the garage (hoping she would forget). Days went by and she began telling me she saw two things that were green and white. Then later she asked if there would be a "real oven" in it...I asked in what? and she replied in the house in the garage. She asked if there would be one for her and for Shandra's girls, she replied how EXCITED she was to know what her fun surprise was... Anyways so with that in mind here comes Christmas morning...the husbands all decided NOT to bring Alayna's over to Shan's house just for the reaction, but to tell her she had one waiting at home....Well this is how she handled that.

Isn't that the saddest thing to do to a little girl...I think so. After that happened Todd said, "Who's idea was it anyways to leave her doll house at home?" Those mean dads!!! Once we arrived home she was in HEAVEN and LOVES her doll house.

See I told you she LOVED it! Look at that happy smile!

Anyways, after all the emotion of the dollhouse we went downstairs to open up several other fun presents. It really was a great day! Thanks to everyone for sharing in so many fun memories.

Here is Alayna holding her "Tea Party Set" from Santa. She couldn't have been happier about this!

After presents it was off to Grandpa Randy & Grandma Nettie's house. Let's just say they were spoiled! Oh, the list goes on and on of FUN presents. These kids were exhausted at the end of the night. They slept in until about 8:30am the next morning.

Let's just say this little guy received the BEST present ever. Grandma Nettie gave him this adorable basketball hoop. He LOVES it. He puts the basketballs in the hoop and it cheers and he squeals. Jared and I just sit and giggle with him. It really is SO cute! Again, thanks to all who helped this be a great Christmas. If pictures didn't take so long to up load I think I'd post more...maybe more later...but this is enough tonight! Merry Christmas and this week a Happy New Year!