Christmas Day!!

I woke up around 8:00 Christmas morning to let Ziggy out and couldn't go back to sleep! I made Michael get up and made some hot chocolate for the both of us before heading in to unwrap our presents. {We kind of did our Christmas early this year, or so I thought until I opened my presents. Michael got me some skis at the end of November and gave them to me early so I could use them! I gave Michael some ski pants and pedals for his new mountain bike early as well.}

While drinking our hot chocolate, Michael and I started opening our presents. He got some sturdy boots for snowshoeing, a shirt, sweater and some patagonia shoes. I loved watching him open his presents. He had two presents under the tree for me. One was small and the other was huge. In the small present was some skiing socks! Just what I needed so I won't use Michaels ski socks anymore. I opened the big present last and Michael kept saying, "Don't get your hopes up." I started to open the present and couldn't believe what was inside, "A Camera!" I screamed. I couldn't believe it; I was so excited! I never in a million years would've expected it, he totally spoiled me. All the pictures below are taken with my new camera! I'm still trying to learn and get used to it, so have patience with the blurry ones.

We went up to my parent's house around 11:30 and had breakfast with my mom and dad and Wes & Jess and the kids. We watched Morgan, Carson and Malia open their presents. (That was the funnest part of the whole day). Their reactions were priceless. Morgan and Carson got these funny shoes that blow up and (supposedly) make you jump really high. We all tried them on and found that they did not do much, but the boys loved them! Malia got a baby doll with a high seat, crib and stroller. I can't believe what motherly instincts she has at such a young age. She was feeding, holding and pushing that doll as if it were her baby.

Oh! I almost forgot, Santa stopped by... and so did two little elves! It is tradition for Michael's dad and sister to dress up and deliver presents to families on the Harley on Christmas Day. They stopped by in the afternoon to say hello. Morgan stayed in the kitchen because he was nervous to see Santa, so Santa went into the kitchen to talk to him. Morgan wouldn't look or say anything, then all of the sudden he turned around and said "Thank you for my remote control car!" really fast and then turned back around. I then told Morgan that Santa's elves were with him and he needed to go say hi. Morgan went into the entry way and hugged Ryan (Jessica's boyfriend) and told him thanks for his presents. Morgan is 6 1/2 years and I thought he'd for sure be skeptical of Santa by now, but he really believes in him; it was cute.