A Wonderful Christmas Day!!

The boys were up by 6:10 this morning excited to go downstairs and check out if Santa had been here. We began our day opening many wonderful presents. Caleb got his treasured Lego "Mars Mission" set he asked Santa for and Elton got his crash up cars (among other things). Dan's big gift was a flight simulator remote helecopter. I got a cool new tiny little camera that I can keep in my purse.

After all the presents were opened, Dan was very busy with assembling toys for the boys. I cooked up a huge breakfast skillet for breakfast and we all enjoyed "Candy Cane" coffee. After breakfast, Papa Jack took the boys to the garage for one more surprise - a Jeep for them to drive. They both loved it, but Elton spent most of his morning in the garage with Papa Jack practicing his new driving skills. Not a long break before preparation began for Dan's family to come over. By noon we had a 17lb prime rib cooking. In the afternoon I made us all a "Christmas Cream" Latte.

Dan's family joined us around 3:30. By 5pm the prime rib was ready as were all the fixings to go with it. We had a wonderful meal!! We then opened a few more presents and were faced with dessert. The choices were a fruit trifle (I made) and strawberry cheesecake. In the end most of us ended up sampling both.

Now get this, the boys were totally excited to take a bath when everyone left because they received bath sets with foam soap. They went to bed eagerly with new stories to listen to with their TJ bear they got last year and new Baby Einstein books. When I checked on them a little bit ago they were passed out side by side in Elton's bed with flashlights still on from looking at their books. It was too cute.