Christmas Day 2008

**I had to put the pictures into collages because I had so many-- I do the collages in Picasa 3--totally easy- Picasa does it for you**

Christmas day was a busy but fun day. We started the morning out at about 8am with the kids bounding in to wake us from our deep much needed sleep. We immediately went down stairs, made a couple cups of coffee and then settled in for the opening of the presents. I want to warm all of you that the following pictures are untouched and full of fresh out of bed, no makeup, scroungy needing a shower pictures of me-- yuck!! Sadly, Kevin had the camera a lot of the time so I happen to be in quite a few pictures-- which is rare I must say. Anyway, proceed with caution!!

The boys were sooooo happy to get their Ducks jerseys (hockey) and their USC shirts. My dad is a big USC fan and has created two more fans in the boys. We are not huge team sports people (with the exception of hockey) so we let the boys get their sports fix with my dad. My dad has a plan that both the boys will go to USC-- which is fine but I told him the only way that is going to happen is if he --NOTICE I SAID HE-- starts saving his pennies now :)

The boys big gift was their air soft guns. They are so addicted to air soft and have been dreaming about their guns for a long time. They were soooo excited!!! Mia loved her Ariel doll and I loved my tool kit Kevin bought me. I simply asked for a little tool kit-- you know the pink ones for moms-- but Kevin took this project seriously and bought me crazy cool real tools. You can not believe all the cool tools I got-- I have no idea what half of them are for.

Mia also loved all of her new books. She enjoyed unwrapping them and loved looking at the pictures. She is a book freak!! Kevin opened his ornament from Ethan and Ethan opened his new snowboarding helmet-- see we are safety conscious!!

More Mia books. Owen got a new BMX bike (not sure if you heard or not but his totally cool BMX race bike that he got in July for his birthday was stolen in September. He was devastated so he got another - cheaper one- for Christmas) and the boys went outside to shoot their air soft guns.


After we finished opening gifts at our house we went to Kevin's brothers house to do Christmas morning with them and Kevin's parents. Greg made these awesome egg/ bacon/ bread things that were sooo yummy and we all just relaxed and had a good time.

As you can see, Greg and Lynsee got a play station Guitar band thing and Mia (and the rest of the kids) had a blast playing it. Lynsee is from Canada and her brother RJ was down for the holidays so he decided to help teach Mia the ropes on how to drum.

Greg and Lynsee got the boys Hockey sticks and a goalie stick so they went out front with Katie and Kylie to play a little street hockey in the rain. Mia got a tea set, an Asian baby doll from grandma and grandpa Bock and she had fun playing with her cousins.

That night we had our family and Kevin's family over for Christmas dinner. Mia enjoyed playing with her new tea set-- literally she played with it for a really long time-- Owen tried to play as well and Mia was not very happy about it!

Overall, Christmas day was a great time! The next day we woke up really early and I took the boys snowboarding-- which by the way I forgot to take my camera so no pictures- sorry!! It was a cold day but we had a lot of fun. While we were returning from lunch the ABC news team stopped me to interview me about the weather and the snow conditions. I forgot about the interview until we were driving home and my dad called and said he saw me on the news. I also found out a few other people saw me on the news as well-- too funny--- I had forgot about the interview all together!!