Christmas 2010!

Christmas this year was great! Payton was old enough to open presents, and get excited about what was inside. We had a lot of fun with Devry's family as well.

On Christmas eve Devry's family (except Joe and Lisa who are in Ohio) came to our house for Dinner. We had Chinese food, played games, and decorated cookies for Santa.

Here is Trey and Macy with their fun Christmas accessories.

Payton had a turn wearing the Rudolf antlers and nose. He was so funny wearing it. He kept almost running into things because he was trying to look at the nose.
Decorating sugar cookies. Santa got lots of yummy cookies. So did Payton and Macy who ate everything they could reach.


After everyone went home, we opened our Christmas Eve presents. Our tradition is to receive new PJ's on Christmas eve. In years past the PJ's I bought Devry have shrunk and ended up to short so this year I made Devry and Payton matching John Deere PJ pants. They fit them both great, and were so easy! I may end up making them every year now. Maybe I'll make my own too from now on, since PJ pants being too short is a constant problem for me too. The ones Devry bought me we had to return.

Here is Devry and Payton in their matching homemade PJ's.

We slept great on Christmas Eve. I have always had a problem sleeping on Christmas Eve. I get so excited and can't sleep. This year I found a fix to the problem. I worked Thursday night and didn't sleep on Friday. So by the time I went to bed Christmas eve, I had been awake for almost 38 hours with only a 2 hour nap. I crashed and slept soundly all night. Devry even had to wake me up Christmas morning. This was shocking for my family to hear since I am ALWAYS the first one awake.

Payton woke up at 6:45 and we went to get him.

When he walked into the family room and saw the stockings, I don't think he knew what to think.




Then we handed him some presents, and he began to get the idea. He loved ripping off the wrapping paper, and oooo'd and ahh'd over everything.

Of course his favorite wasn't even a toy, or candy. It was an orange. He kept saying "wow"

After opening stockings. We went to see what was under the tree.

We opened presents for a long time. We let Payton open all of them, and help with ours. He was so funny to watch. He loved every minute of it! If it was a present he loved, he didn't want to give it up to open the next. If it was something a little less exciting (clothes), he would open the gift enough to see that it was clothes, then throw it and run and grab another one.


We helped Payton with opening some of his gifts. And he helped us open ours.

His last gift was set up in the play room. It was a ball pit. When he walked in, he didn't know what to do. He kept pointing at it from across the room saying "ball" and "wow". Finally he went and sat in it, and loved it!

The ball pit was by far his favorite. Even 3 days later, he keeps acting like its the first time he's ever seen it. When he wakes up, we hear him saying "ball" then as soon as we get him, he runs into the play room and dives into the ball pit. It's so fun to see him enjoy a gift so much!

We had a great Christmas. We were very spoiled by family, and received wonderful gifts. We had so much fun Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with Devry's family. We skyped with my family, and let them see Payton open the presents they sent. I love Christmas, and more so now that Payton is starting to understand parts of it.

Here are a few pictures of us with Payton by the Christmas Tree.