Merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas!  We had a wonderful Christmas and are having a hard time believing its already come and gone.  It went by way too fast.  We opened stockings and presents at our house in the morning and then went over to my parents house the rest of the day. It still doesn't seem the same without James and Angela but we did call them on our way over to my parents and Colin sang them Santa Baby. They didn't enjoy it though since we woke them up so next year we won't be calling them to sing songs in the morning :)  Its so fun seeing Colin and Joel open their presents and especially Colin get so excited over everything. He was bouncing off the walls all day (eating his whole bag of chocolate covered raisins from Santa also might have contributed to that) Colin was excited about his big blue flashlight and was also excited to give Joel the present he picked out for him. (baby keys since Colin refuses to give up his! ha it is the thought that counts! and now they both have one)  This was the year for costumes for Colin as he got a pirate costume, a VT football player uniform, and a fireman's jacket and fireman boots. And books, lots and lots of books. Joel was excited to rip paper off presents and eat the paper.  Joels eyes would light up when he saw his gifts which was really cute to see.  He got some big boy trucks and trains and now doesn't have to try to scoot over to where Colin is playing. Although all day Colin has been playing with BOTH his and Joel's toys.  And Joel has gotten ten times faster at scooting today just to get at his toys.  Joel is also very jealous of Colin's football helmet and keeps trying to get at it :)  Sharing is a hard thing to learn.  It was also a year for thinking alike as my dad got 2 slide scanners, sarah and I got the same sweatshirt, and Colin got two of the same books.  Pops got Colin "Pirates dont change diapers" book which we have read every day for a week.  So when Colin opened it up from Mary he read it "ooooo Pirates Dont Change Diapers" is what he said and Mary was so amazed that he could read.  I thought about letting her believe that and let him read her the story since he has it memorized but I told her. ha! We were all very blessed by family this year and have all been playing with our presents all day.  (Brent is at this moment setting up his new surround sound speakers to go with his new tv. He will never leave the back room now) Thank you everyone for the wonderful gifts.