Christmas, Part 1

We had a crazy busy Christmas day and I literally took 180 pictures on that one day alone, so I'm going to split the Christmas blog up into two separate posts. There are still a ton of pictures to look at though!

Peyton woke up around 8:00 and when we went downstairs, we saw that Santa came!

At first Peyton wasn't too excited about the idea of Santa coming to our house, but when he saw all of the presents, he changed his tune quickly. Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk that we left out for him. He even wrote Peyton a little note back. We found the end of the carrot that we left for the reindeer outside of our house.

Santa even filled Peyton's stocking up with some goodies.

Peyton ran right back into the living room and started ripping into his presents. He did a really good job this year. He didn't really need any help from us. He wanted to start with all of the big presents in the back. Here are just a few pictures of him opening and enjoying his presents from Santa.

He really liked this Mickey Mouse Clubhouse keyboard. He stopped opening gifts a few times just so that he could go back to play with the keyboard for a few minutes. Then he would resume the gift opening.

Peyton also got this Sesame Street play set. He already has little figurines of all of the Sesame Street characters, so I guess Santa thought Peyton would like to play with his characters on the actual Sesame Street. I think he was right!

Here are a few more pictures of Peyton opening gifts. I think Santa brought 20 gifts for Peyton. That kid is so spoiled!

Adam called while Peyton was in the middle of opening his gifts. I made Peyton stop opening his gifts while Kyle was on the phone, so that he wouldn't miss anything. I told Peyton he had to wait until Daddy was finished on the phone, so Peyton said to Kyle, "Daddy, off phone yet?" It was so funny (but you probably had to be there).

Peyton got lots of books, which he liked. We read a ton of books around here.

It took Peyton about 45 minutes, including the time that Kyle was on the phone, to open all of his gifts. This is what the living room looked like when Peyton was finished opening his gifts. What a mess!

My parents and Jeremy came over for breakfast around 9:00. We made french toast, bacon, sausage, and eggs. I thought everything tasted good, but maybe I was biased. Peyton ate so much for breakfast. He had french toast, a piece of bacon, an egg, and SIX sausage links. What a piggy!

After breakfast, Grandmom and Pop-Pop gave Peyton more gifts.

The highlights were a Home Depot workshop with working power tools, the coordinating tool belt, a Corvette, building blocks, and Elmo K'nex blocks.

Then we gave Jeremy, Mom, and Dad their gifts. We gave Jeremy this "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" t-shirt. We had another gift for him, but waited to give it to him until Jill was around too, since we gave her the same thing.

Mom's favorite gift from us was this picture of our family in a pretty frame.

Dad's best gift was tickets to a Maryland Terps basketball game in January.

Where's Peyton? He totally blends in with the wrapping paper!

Kyle and I also got our gifts from my parents and Jeremy. Kyle's favorites were gift certificates to the driving range and a surround sound system. I got the Wizard of Oz collector's edition DVD set, a mixer that I wanted, and a promise of some new maternity clothes.

After everyone left, Peyton played with some of his new toys. After lunch, he took a nap. Kyle and I opened our gifts from each other. I got Kyle a new flat screen tv for our bedroom. He was very surprised.

He also got tickets to the Capitals hockey game when they play the Redwings and "The Hangover" which is "the best movie ever."

Kyle got me lots of stuff, including some maternity clothes, a new watch, my necklace (which needed to be repaired), and two new Guitar Hero games.

There were more Christmas festivities later in the evening, but I'll talk about those in Part 2.