A Full Day of Christmas-ness

Saturday morning - Christmas morning - I slept in, then mozied on downstairs to find everyone up and ready to go.  We had to stockings to dig into after all. 

 Love that these two have the same look on their faces.

 From gleeful kid to the friendliest convenience store hold up ever.

 We're merely training her for her future celebrity-dom.

After breakfast we ditched the stockings and dug into presents.  Chad, for example, got his favorite no-bake cookies from his awesome wife.

Aaron got Wii accessories

More paparazzi training for Emma

 Emma's amazing and insightful aunt got her super cute pjs.

Although through it all I have to say Jess had the best reactions:

 Her awesome husband got her the photo-editing software she's been dreaming of.

After we finished morning gifts and breakfast, Chad, Jess, Emma and I hit up our other parents' household for afternoon gifts and snacks.

 Lots of hugs, kids, and presents!

 Wonder where Cali gets this from?

 Oh right. That would be her dad.

 After small talk and watching the kiddos open gifts, we got down to business with the white elephant gift exchange.

There was much oooo-ing and awe-ing, and not a little bit of swiping.

 Who knew styrofoam could bring such joy??

 And then the clean up.

 After a full afternoon, we headed out to Grandma Marsha's to finish up the festivities.  It pretty much boiled down to Emma entertaining all of us.

A dead ringer for the virgin Mary, don't you think?

Happy, happy Christmas!