Merry Christmas everyone & happy birthday to our Savior Jesus Christ!! It wouldn't be a normal Christmas without staying up late watching Christmas Vacation & The Christmas Story & waking up extremely early due to excitement! Yes, I am still a little kid at heart waking up early & sitting impatiently as others are asleep, contemplating how I can make just enough noise to cause everyone to realize it's Christmas morning. Doesn't everyone do this?! And yes, I did wake my husband only moments before Stryker was calling our names from the banister. I quickly grabbed LakeLynn as we rushed to the bottom of the stairs saying "Merry Christmas" to our little boy. Logan carried him down as I prepared to capture the first facial expression as Stryker saw what Santa Claus had left on the coffee table...a dinosaur set! He ran over in complete amazement & kept saying Santa brought what I asked for! Oh to see Christmas through a young child's eyes! We played with the dinosaur set for awhile before Coco & Fletch arrived. We proceeded to let Stryker open LakeLynn's gift from mom & dad. She loved the seahorse that lit up & played music. Stryker enjoyed ripping the wrapping paper off the remaining gifts. He was determined to get every piece of wrapping paper off the boxes before wanting the toys opened! Stryker was able to get a Chuck race track & play doh table including 11 cans of play doh with accessories. Stryker was running from toy to toy while Lake enjoyed watching her wild brother. Logan surprised me with a tree topper for my Hotty Toddy Christmas tree! Now, all I need is an Ole Miss tree skirt next year & it will be complete. For Stryker's final gift, we led him upstairs where he discovered a game table from Coco. It has several changeable tables: foosball, ping pong, air hockey, & pool. Not sure who had more fun, Stryker, Coco, or Logan. I'm thinking there may be some competition nights ahead for Logan & me! The rest of the day was spent playing at home. I do have to admit that I made a crockpot pecan pie (see a before & after pic below). I was skeptical at first because I am extremely picky with pecan pie, but it was delicious! Merry Christmas everyone!
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