this morning...

"Mom, Bella's eating my chocolate kisses with the wrapper"..."Mom, there's syrup on my Leapster screen"..."Mom, where's my Lego pirate guy, I can't find it anywhere?!"

hmmm...wonder why it's chaos in here?! I was looking forward to putting on my new clothes today & checking out the after Christmas sales, catching a movie & basking in the Christmas afterglow. I guess I need to clean first!

Yesterday, Bella loved opening her new puppy Violet that says her name & sings cute songs.

After Noah got his new Nintendo DS, we just saw the top of head for the rest of the day!

Mack was enjoying shooting us all with nerf missles & then laughing while running away.

We couldn't find Sam, but this cute storm trooper zoomed by every now & then!

I worked hard to make sure the kids understood that Christmas is about the birth of our Saviour, and I know the boys all understood that this year. Thankfully, we had many opportunities to do things this month to bring the true spirit of Christmas to our home.

Yesterday was all about Santa & toys though! :) We had so much fun & hope you did too.