Yeah Christmas!

We had a great Christmas!! It started on Christmas Eve where we started a new tradition of drawing each others names and buying them a gift that would be open that night, and that was so much fun (Maddie wanted her own name though). So we looked at lights opened our Eve gifts and new jammies then off to read The Night before Christmas, and yeah off to bed!
Rich and I stayed up pretty later testing things out "WINK WINK" and we had told Kaden he was NOT allowed to wake us up before 5:30 and so right on the night I was aware of a scratching on my blanket and there he was. I asked him if he wanted to sleep with us for a while but that didnt work. LOL
So he woke up Maddie and we brushed our teeth and downstairs we went. I think it is safe to say they made out pretty well. As Maddie proclaimed "That Santa knows what hes doing!"
Last year it took them no time at all to open everything but this year it almost took an hour because they were taking a little more time with each gift so that was nice.
After finishing their own they opened up Malias gifts and it was very sweet because they were very gentle and caring with her stuff and said O Malia will like that!
We then had a Merry good time with the new Wii (I know have Wii elbow) and just hung out and cleaned up and watched movies played games and with all the new stuff!
We had friends over for dinner which was very nice and our families went to town with the Wii too. Ive been surprised how much I even like it!! After they left we cleaned up and watched more movies and played more and finally went to bed!
I love Christmas I love what it brings out in people. The love that you can even feel for a stranger while you let them ahead in line or not care so much when you get bumped in the overcrowded stores and of course the pure magic in your children's eyes as they see that yes Santa did come this year! Maddies first words Christmas morning was I saw Santa on our roof!
Hope you all had an awesome Christmas too!
** Our very best gift was on Christmas Eve learning that our dossier was safe and sound and in the hands of our agency to get translated!