Since we did not have all of the kids together for the majority of Christmas Day, we celebrated again at each of the grandparents' houses this past weekend.
Saturday we went to the mall in the morning to get the cousin Christmas picture taken. Somehow we had the wrong time and got there 40 minutes early...so we walked around the mall finding as many escalators as we could to go up and down. That worked surprisingly well to keep the kids all amused, and we were able to successfully get a nice Christmas picture, which you will have to wait until January 9th to see.
After that we headed to Grandma and Papa's for lunch and presents.
Grandma always gets the kids each a Christmas ornament:
(an alien for Jonas)
(Perry the Platypus for Bransen)
(A horse for Brynn)
And the kids all got lots of other presents from their aunts and uncles, and Grandma and Papa. It is a rule at Grandma's to open one present at a time so that everyone can see everything, but even with that rule, things get a little crazy, and I still missed a bunch! Here's some of the cool things they got:
We had fun watching our family open presents we had picked out, too.
After opening presents for HOURS, we relaxed and had some game and movie time.
On Sunday, we went over to Grandma Deb and Grandpa Dan's for another delicious Christmas meal and to open gifts there. The highlight for the kids was their glow pets!
And the highlight for Duane and I was our super cool new portable picnic table!
The kids spent some time relaxing and playing a fun Disney game with Grandma Deb after the present opening.
And with that - we are finally done with Christmas posts! Merry Christmas!
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