Santa Clause came to town...

This jolly guy came to our house Thursday night...



We heard his sleigh bells outside our house around 9:30 Thursday night.  I have never seen 2 children {Owen already had visions of sugarplums dancing in his head} jump in their beds so fast!  When Banks woke up around 2:00 am he discovered this scene...



He quickly woke up his sister and brother in hopes of getting to open his presents then.  We made them all go back to bed!  Owen was the first to awake on Christmas morning.  He got to take in all the presents all by himself for a good hour {and I got to enjoy a much needed cup of coffee}...



Finally the other 2 woke up and wrapping paper was soon flying...



Both Banks and Mary Reese were hoping for Nintendo DSi.  Santa came through with them and so much more!

Owen was wondering what happened to all his presents...



Finally someone opened one for him...



He was thrilled with the box and could have cared less what was inside!  Santa has also brought back some Fisher Price toys from my day...



It came in some great retro packaging!

The unwrapping took a whopping 18 minutes!  The aftermath look like this...

Owen decided to run crawl for safer ground...

Banks has been hoping for one of the bells from Santa's sleigh to fall off into our yard.  After all the presents were open, we headed out front to investigate.  Mary Reese quickly spotted one in the side yard...

We also found one of theses...

Was the Easter Bunny riding round in Santa's sleigh?

Luckily we found 3 bells from Santa's sleigh in our yard...

I have to admit...I think they were the favorite gift of the holiday!  Banks has toted his around tied to his DS case.  Our bells were from Comet, Cupid and Blitzen {all very hard to find according to Banks}!

It wasn't a White Christmas but it did VERY briefly spit some snow...

We spent lots of time with family between Thursday and Friday.  I spent about 80% of Christmas Day dressed like this...

Owen enjoyed the head scratcher {the hot gift from about 10 years back}...

Mary Reese jammed out to tunes like Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Big Girls Don't Cry, Dixieland Delight, She (Aunt Stacey) Don't Know She's Beautiful, Something Like That, and Rise and Shine...

We were so crazy on Christmas Day that Baby Jesus and the rest of his family didn't get hung on top of the calendar until this morning...

Yesterday we had a quiet day at home taking down the Christmas decorations and playing with all the new toys.  We did require a house call from our favorite electrician {Thanks Wesley}!  Jody got us a new TV and DVD player for our bedroom.  When I went to plug it in...sparks went flying and the breaker flipped!  Needless to say...we called in for a professional!

Today these Princess Barbies have been schuned from the rest of their friends for loosing one of their slippers...

I don't think they are allowed to rejoin the group until their shoes are found!  And Christmas wouldn't be complete without one of these...