Christmas Day!

The 1st thing we do every Christmas morning is read the Christmas Story out of Luke. Here is this years picture of Papa reading it :) 

The kids listening to the Christmas story and trying to not look at their stockings behind me :) In their new PJ's. Baby J slept thru Christmas morning.. and got to open his gifts later on with the crew helping out. 

 
Having hot chocolate later on in the morning. We'd done over half the gifts and we needed a break! We actually took almost no pictures of gift opening this year.

Floor Hockey... we got them 4 sticks and 2 nets for Christmas this year. They love it!! The sticks and nets stay outside now :) 

Baby J in his new, but very drooled on, PJ's.. 8 month size, with one of his new toys! 

He's so cute.. was fun to have a 'first Christmas' with a baby again! 

E out playing hockey.. or at least enjoying the new sticks. She holds her stick all wrong and no matter how many times Papa showed her she kept holding it that way! 

R with a hockey stick in one hand and a bucket in the other. She HAD to have a bucket? I still don't know why.. but she looked HIGH and LOW until I found her this one.. an old egg bucket. Then she was happy! 

Papa showing L how to hold a stick properly and hit a ball. 

J took to hockey like he'd played before.. here are him and L fighting for the ball. We are going to do a unit on hockey for school soon but for now Papa gave them a few rules to follow. 

Papa at net with R in front looking on. Chip in the background. They cleared part of the driveway to play hockey on and he was NOT allowed on it.. very confused dog! He REALLY wanted the ball too.. but was pretty good about leaving it and staying out of the way. 

We got several inches of snow Christmas morning and it was perfect for a snowman! Here is R rolling up a head! 

The boys debating where the buttons should go on him while the girls look on! It was pretty warm out. 

J placing buttons. 

The happy crew and their finished snowman. Notice the snowball in his hand? Our snowman is ready for some fun!! 

The rest of the day was spent being lazy, playing with new toys and games and watching How to Train your Dragon :)