Christmas 2010

This year Christmas seemed extra magical. I think my kids are at the prime age when the excitement for Santa, and their anticipation for Christmas day is at it's peak. They were particularly mindful of Santa's good list and naughty this year. If ever they were tempted to get out of line, a quick reminder of "Santa's elves are watching" did the trick. This year Kirk was dying for an AT AT walker. It's the big star wars robot that walks. He started asking for it in September. I think Santa lucked out this year and got it on sale. He also got a couple of Lego sets; which he has played quietly with in his room for hours (I think I'm in love with Lego's too). And no Christmas would be complete for Kirk unless he got a few more star wars guys to add to his collection. He's been getting star wars stuff for Christmas since he was two, and still hasn't out grown them. I use to think this Star Wars fanaticism was just a stage, but it looks like he is a star was kid, and doesn't have any plans of changing that. Kate wanted American Girl stuff again, and was extremely surprised that Santa got her the Felicity doll which was about to be retired. It's so sad to me that the American girl company is retiring all of their memorable historic dolls. I read the books as a kids and Felicity and Samantha were my favorites; they have retired both of those dolls..... so sad. Luckily Kate got one before it was to late, Felicity looks just like me. She has red hair and green eyes. Needless to say I was ecstatic for her to get it. I have to admit that I've found myself brushing her hair, and dressing her up into her colonial gowns. She also got a amplifier which plays music on our i pod nano, and also amplifies a microphone so you can sing along. It's been very helpful for her to practise for her singing lessons. Finally Benjamin got a few things for Christmas too. Santa found it very easy to by for him. He got a car garage, and some new cars, and also some new trains to add to our train table in the basement, and lastly he got a toy push lawn mower. He loved that! Dan and I got our Christmas early this year. We scored an amazing deal on couches for our basement. I woke up at three in the morning to stand in line outside of RC Willey. If you know me well you know I LOVE black Friday deals. I just love the feeling of getting a bargain. I ended up getting a leather reclining couch set. There were only four per store, and I got the very last one! I felt like doing a happy dance in line when I got the voucher. We also splurged and got a big screen television. Now we don't have to watch movies in our bedroom (our bed was getting alittle cramped when we had all the kids watching too).

It's been a great Christmas. Here are a few pictures of the kids in their toy bliss!