Christmas at the Cragun's

Our first Christmas was a lot of fun and hard work. Since it was our first it was hard trying to decide what traditions we were going to keep and what we were going to do different. We started out Christmas Eve with a movie with Grandma and Grandpa Rock we watched the Chipmunks and the kids loved it. I thought it was pretty good too. Then we came home and had dinner with just our family. We then cleaned the house and cooked cookies for Santa and his elves. We read then watched an old Christmas show that was on TV, this is where is got a little hard. Montana and Miyuki said it was a show that there dad used to watch and this started the sadness. The kids then began to really miss their family. Miyuki had a hard night and just couldn't keep the tears in. She really was having a hard time. But who can blame them? They are so sweet and really tried to not let me see that they were hurting inside. We then read the Christmas Story from the Bible and then it was off to bed. Mrs Claus was very busy that night for Santa was pretty tired. These Craguns have the most craziest stockings ever and Mrs Claus had to put them together all by herself. Doing them before for just Mark and Hillari wasn't so bad but now there were three more with a lot more stuff to put in them. Each took about an hour to put together ( oh and by the way Mrs Claus is getting old and her elves latter informed her to do them ahead of time well that didn't help this Christmas but she will definitely remember that for the next). Well the kids slept very well that night and with a busy schedule Christmas day I had to wake them up at 8:00 so we could stay on track and be at Grandma Craguns for breakfast at 9:30 (that was not a tradition we were about to break). So at 8:00 the kids finally woke to these stockings. (yes I braided the girls hair the night before so they would have cute hair on Christmas) Rough night? Miyuki looks a little tired and this is 8:00 am she slept in!!

Wow what a stocking and look I got a picture of my Family in Saipan just what I wanted!!! Oh and a cool letter from Santa!

Hot wheels!!!! I love hot wheels.

After the stockings, we got ready for the day and cleaned the rest of the house. Then it was off to Grandma Craguns for a wonderful Christmas breakfast!!! After breakfast we came home to see what Santa had brought us this was about 12:00 by the time we got home. Grandma and Grandpa Rock met us here so they could watch the kids open their presents. And they loved all of them!!!!

What do we open next?

Niyah and her remote control Car!! (it is a pretty cool one I have to say)

Yeah!!! Teck Decks, Just what I wanted!! How does Santa know?

Look at this doll house!! It is awesome!!!

I guess I was good enough to get something.

More close? What does Santa think I am a girl?

Grandpa had enough.

This is as close as Niyah wanted to a baby. A bear that moves.

A Wii, this must really be for mom. :)

They were all very spoiled and got exactly what they wanted. After we opened presents Mom and Dad took a nap and the kids played with their toys. Then later we went to Grandma and Grandpa Rocks were all the cousins were there and we opened more presents and had dinner. What a fun day and I have to admit I didn't want to make the kids wait to open their presents from Santa but it sure did make the day last a little longer and it was a lot of fun.