Christmas Morning

This year, we had a house full! For the five days before Christmas, my little sister, Janelle, and her adorable family stayed at my house.They brought this darling little guy with them, prompting Ashlyn to ask if we could go get a baby at Target! If only it was that easy!...On Christmas Eve Eve they moved over to my mom's house to make room for Jason's sister, Danale, and her adorable family and Jason's youngest brother, Skyler, who would be spending Christmas morning with us. (I guess it was really Christmas Eve morning.)

Jessica is always the first person up on Christmas morning. She often wakes up long before the sun comes up and wakes everyone else up. Jason said he heard little feet running up and down the stairs somewhere between 5:30AM and 6:00AM. I was out like a light! Jessica tried to wake Austin up, but he knew he couldn't open any presents until we were all awake, so he went back to sleep.

Here are Jessica and Lauren trying to wake Ashlyn up.

All the kids on Christmas Morning Ashlyn was so much fun this Christmas! Here are some of my favorite Christmas morning faces...

The "I'm so excited" faces

Yes, those are feet jumping for joy, when Jessica realized she was getting a hamster. I had to pull a picture of her from the video camera because she wouldn't sit still after that!

The "I am so happy" faces...

The "Look what I got!" faces...

The "silly" faces and the "I really love my daughter" faces...

yes, that's lip gloss!

The "I wonder how long it will take me to clean all this up..." face

And The "I'm totally content" faces...

It was a fun Christmas morning at home. Then we piled in to the car, still in our jammies, and went over to my parent's house for more Christmas!

We had yummy cinnamon rolls and breakfast casserole
We opened more presents while we drank hot chocolateLauren practiced taking LOTS of picturesMy dad is THE best grandpa ever! Cousins in their new BYU gear

I'm sure the neighbors wondered what we all were doing when we finally emerged from my parent's house around 2PM, still in our jammies and morning faces, carrying our new gifts on Christmas Eve morning.