Merry Christmas Everyone!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year at my parent's house. Alex and Dom were not quite excited about their first christmas as we were, but they did humor us a little when they opened their first presents. After that, it was time for naps and they slept through most of the present opening extravaganza.

Here is Alex opening his very first Christmas present! Doesn't he look thrilled! This was the ONLY present that he was willing to help rip the paper off of...

Proof that even real men can get excited over a surprise present! On a side note, Paul is the WORST person to buy present for (aside from John), because he ALWAYS guesses what it is! It is VERY difficult to surprise him, but with a lot of hard work, creative wrapping, and a little luck, it can be done. Here is proof.

Dominic is just thrilled with his new puzzle! As soon as he got the wrapper off, he started chucking the peices at his mom's head. He has a very good throwing arm and throws almost every toy he can get his hands on. It is really cute and funny.

Here is the whole gang! We had a hard time getting the babies to look at the camera, so Daniel is snapping his fingers and Gramps is making weird sounds, but all they did was stare at the noise makers.

And, finally, here is Alex a few days before Christmas sitting in his first snow drift. Okay, so there wasn't very much, but I sat him in it anyway just to see what he would do. He imeadiatly started crawling right in to a patch of mud...I know it was not as impressive as the Saunder's snow pictures, but it was all we had!