Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas Day

With church at 9pm we didn't do our original Christmas morning breakfast of strawberry waffles.  That became our lunch.  Nate got up at midnight to get his stocking but the rest of us slept until time to get ready.

 Christmas Eve Jammies
 Typical Chris face.


 The gift of the season.
 My gift of the season.

 Lovin' his Sounders jersey.
The aftermath.


We open our gifts in stages.  Stage 1 is stockings.  You can open those whenever you want but don't wake the parents up.

Stage 2: Gifts from each other (aka Chris, Kaye, and Nathan)

Stage 3:  Santa gifts.  Yes Santa still comes to our house.

Stage 4:  Gifts from grandparents and other family members.

We take time between each stage to enjoy our gifts, clean up the mess, eat/get cleaned up, etc...
It makes Christmas last all day.  This is only our 2nd year doing it but we've really enjoyed it.



2 comments:

Jen said...

Those are some good ideas for opening presents on Christmas. Maybe when my kids get a little older we could do something like that.

MG said...

What a fun tradition. And lots of family to visit. Glad you got all moved in before Christmas. How is moving yourself? I haven't dont it in years...but may soon.