Christmas with the fam...

The B boys had a fabulous Christmas. Well, why wouldn't they?! This is the second year that we have stayed at the homestead for the arrival of the big guy and we love that we get to do that. You would think now that the boys are getting a little older that they would be waking us up before the crack of dawn to check out the loot. Especially after the way Logster was breathing down my neck to go to bed so that Santa would come. Well not the case. We had to wake them up. Logan took over our bed due to alleged bad dreams. At about 6:45 he says, "Sorry mom for sleeping in your bed". I forgive him and wait a handful of seconds and nothing. So in my surprise voice I say, "Holy smokes it's Christmas morning". Still a lag and then I'm told to move it as he barrels out of my bed. I shout wake your brothers up first. Well he got one of them up and then headed for the study to see if he got his DS...of course he did. And Kale and Lucas got what they wanted from Santa too. Along with tons of stuff from Mom and Dad. Although Santa only brings a few gifts and the others are out well ahead of time, I'm pretty sure that Santa gets credit for almost everything. Steve was also wowed with the gifts the boys and I got him. Kind of a shirt year for him. While the boys played Steve took on making Christmas breakfast. He is not in charge of that next year. After Steve served his breakfast pizza (shocking that is what he made I know) I went ahead had fed them. They did not like the breakfast pizza, really no one did. Nice try though Stevo! So then we hurried up to get in the car for the next 4 1/2 hours to do it all over again at Nana & Papa's. All of the Johnston clan was there this year so if you can imagine Nana's house being invaded by 12 extra adults and 11 additional kids you'll get the gist of the experience. Thank goodness for basements! As always we had tons of fun staying up way to late and playing drinking games. Good times had by all. The primary focus of Friday...a trip to Taco Pronto, God's gift to Wichita. Deliciouso! (Got another round in on our way back through ICT on Saturday night too!) Friday night we moved on over to GB for Christmas with the Berens Family. All of the Berens clan was there as well this year. Christmas dinner and another round of presents. With all the present openings at both sets of grandparents, it was touch and go if we were going to have to leave a kid behind to make sure all the presents made it home. In the end, after weighing the pros & cons, we chose to leave a few presents behind. Tough decision though! While in GB we did get to see a little of the white stuff (snow) which we really haven't seen at home. While there, Kale developed a huge obsession with Olivia. He told us a million times how much he loved her and the he needed her and that she is so nice. He called her "My friend" and didn't really leave her side. On Saturday we braved taking all the kiddos to a movie - bedtime stories. So you know Kale is not quite ready to go to a movie. He had to hug people, he was the popcorn tyrant, was stressed out because he didn't know where his friend was (Olivia), he keep trying to sit/lay on the floor, etc. The big boys had fun though. After the movie it was back in the car to ICT. Finally an early night in bed - 10 pm. Then Sunday morning we headed back home to try to put our house back in order with all the new additions. A big THANK YOU to everyone! Until next year....