Merry Christmas!

This is a year of first's for us.  In addition to living in a new state for the first time in my life, we were on our own for Thanksgiving and now, for Christmas.  But apart from being away from our loves ones, we had a great Christmas morning.  We attempted church last night, but ended up leaving early with 2 tired boys.  But after a good night sleep, we woke up this morning to lots of presents from Santa.  Unfortunately, something is wrong with either my camera or my CF card.  I am secretly hoping for the first so that I can get a new one, but we will see!  But I did manage to retrieve a few pictures so at least we have something to remember Jackson's first Christmas!

Doesn't he look excited???

The boys got tons of toys, as usual.  The one thing that Tyler has been asking for since we started talking about Santa and presents is "Spike" the dinosaur.  So here he is unwrapping Spike.  Unfortunately, we did not unwrap it and put it together before hand, so we did not know that you had to charge the battery for 4 hours before you use it.  

This year was fun because Tyler really understood it and loved opening the presents.  I think he was a little confused though because my birthday was just a few days ago and he would hand out the presents and say "Happy Birthday" instead of Merry Christmas.

I think Jackson had fun also.  He liked to tear the paper and got excited when he saw the toys. 

One of Tyler's favorite presents was this cheap little drum set we got him at he last minute.  He is really into music and loves to have everyone play along with him.

Jackson watching every move.

It was very hard to buy things for Jackson this year because he has all of Tyler's old toys- which is a lot.  But a few of them have bit the dust, so we were able to replace those.

Tyler was such a good brother helping Jackson unwrap presents.

Tyler gave up trying to reach in and pull out things from his stocking, so his just dumped it out onto the floor.  So patient, just like his Dad!

Rich (and Tyler) got an early Christmas present- we finally got a Wii.  Tyler loves the boxing game and Rich loves the guitar hero set we got.  Tyler likes the drums, Rich gets the guitar, Jackson gets the microphone, and I am the paparatzzi taking the pictures.

Here is Tyler playing the boxing game.  He does it more like Ultimate fighting in that he kicks, runs, and jumps while he punches.  It really is a good workout!