Merry Christmas!

It was great to have my brother, Rustin, with us again for Christmas.  My boys absolutely adore him!  Once again they had a countdown til Rustin came which superseded their countdown to Christmas.  It's always great to be able to spend Christmas with family.  Carter and Gage fell asleep on the way to the airport to pick him up on Christmas Eve and as a result they had a REALLY hard time falling asleep that night. They laid in bed for 2 hours before they finally fell asleep!

I love the magic of Christmas morning with little kids.  Gage is at the perfect age and was so excited about everything!  All morning long he kept exclaiming, "this is the best Christmas EVER!"  Carter and Gage were so excited with everything that they had a hard time not opening up everyone else's presents for them.  Carter was thrilled that Santa brought him his King's Castle Lego set and I am sure will be devastated when he comes home from school today only to find that Camden destroyed it while he was gone.  Gage was happy to report that maybe Carter won't be so mad because now he gets to make it all over again!  

Carter and Gage picked out Nerf guns for each other.  Gage got Carter an automatic gun that shoots 3 darts per second.  Gage's is a semi-automatic.  They then picked out the smalled little pistol they could find for Uncle Rustin.  It made for some comical gun fighting on Christmas morning.  

In school Carter's class made gifts for their parents.  Carter was so excited to make his door hanger for his Uncle Rustin (should I feel bad that he didn't want to give it to me??)  He made a card and wrapped it up and it was the first present under the Christmas tree.  He couldn't wait for Rustin to open it and made him open it first.

Cam cracked us all up on Christmas with his inability to go without eating a banana while opening his presents.  This kid really is a little monkey!    It was a happy morning.  The boys received an air hockey table from their grandparents which they have loved and Rustin and Jared loved staying up til 2:00 in the morning putting it together for them.  It may have been less troublesome had it come with instructions!

I hope your Christmas was filled with love and joy!