Christmas in the "Q"

What a great day! We missed being around family, but knowing that this was our last Christmas without our other loved ones made it all okay. Our dear friends invited us over for Christmas dinner, and we had a great time complete with the Nativity and violin performances by both Brigham and Benjamin. On Christmas Eve I slept on an air mattress at the end of the hall to prevent any little Christmas creepers from getting into the presents before we were all awake. I woke up at 5:45 to Benjamin saying, "Wake up, Mom! It's Christmas!" I made him wait a whole 10 minutes until his other brothers woke up, and then the magic began! All I can say is that Christmas is so much more fun when you have little kids! For all the trouble that Jacob gets into, he makes up for it (well, almost all of it) on Christmas morning. He was SO excited to open presents that he was actually shaking as he opened his first few! It was so cute! And he was so excited about his presents. Santa brought him some CARS pillow books (made of cloth-- maybe these will last a little longer), and he sat and looked at them for probably 20 minutes before he was ready for his next gift. Benjamin was excited and running around and was so cute and so good. Not once did we hear, "Hey, that's not fair!" Little Ty was just content to push one of Jacob's boxes around the room. After opening all of our wonderful gifts, we had a turkey dinner and spent the afternoon playing some of the games that we got. In the evening we watched The First Christmas and reflected on what the day is all about. It was a terrific day!