Christmas

This year for Christmas Quincy asked if she could get her ears pierced.  We were driving home from our dentist appointments and went ahead and surprised her by stopping at the mall a week before Christmas.  She was so nervous, but so excited to finally have real earrings!

Every Christmas Eve we get together at Darin's to celebrate his birthday and to have a family Christmas party.  This year we went at 12:30 on Christmas Eve.  It was nice to hang out for the afternoon and then get home at a decent time to read the nativity and get the kids in bed.

Darin opening his birthday presents with Corban, Parley, Keaton and Jen

Jeremy and Grandma

After opening presents Sue had things for the kids to make gingerbread houses.

Cambric and her boyfriend, Jake were big helpers for Bethany, Quincy, Gabby and Maren.

Sue and Jen helped too

But Ariel, I mean Kelsey, and Corban's house was the best!

Christmas Eve ended in a bit of excitement.  The kids wanted to go to bed early.  So, they were in bed with Melatonin to help them sleep and they were sound asleep by 8:00 pm - no kidding!  So, I got out gifts and started wrapping things that I hadn't gotten to yet.  Lots of things were out in the living room upstairs and we were showing gifts to Grandma and Grandpa.  As we were talking we heard something in the kitchen.  Both Grandma and Bump ran to intercept Gabby before she walked around the corner and saw things that were out.  In the process of running to intercept Gabby, Grandma got shoved into the corner of a wall and within a few hours it looked like this:

No, that's not her elbow.  She kept ice on it and the swelling was down by morning, but OUCH!

Don't let this Christmas morning picture fool you.  My girls woke up at 9:00 pm on Christmas Eve and COULD NOT go back to sleep.  We tried everything, but they were just too excited and after an hour-long (or short) "nap" what do you expect?  We finally got them to sleep around 3:00 AM on our bedroom floor and then they all woke up at 6:00 am.  What a LONG night!

But what a Christmas!  Everyone got just what they asked for and more!

Gabby's new bike

Quincy's new bike (we had to immediately take off the training wheels)

Corban got a skate board and a new razor scooter.

Minecraft pick

Minecraft sword

Disney Infinity game and loads of characters for it, necklaces, earrings, stuffed animals, watches, socks (asked for by Corban from Santa).  It was a great Christmas for us, even if we couldn't get Grandma and Grandpa up that early to enjoy it with us!