Merry Christmas - Stocking time!

Christmas morning we woke up (thankfully the kids slept til 7am!) and we raced downstairs to see what was in their stockings. I popped in a french toast dish that I had made the night before - unfortunately the smell was much better than how it tasted. I think I put too much cream cheese in it. Oops - I thought it would be a good one b/c it had my mom's check mark by it (meaning it is good!)

Excited to see what treasures they had in their stockings!

One of Jaelyn's comments during the morning, "how did Santa use the same wrapping paper that you used, Mommy?!". (He must like to shop at Costco like mommy! Ha!). Another side note: we sat on Santa's lap this year and then the next day saw another Santa at Snowflake Lane in Bellevue who had a pretty weak beard! Jaelyn noticed that and stated, "Mom there is something different about this Santa." I asked her what she thought was different and she explained that the 2nd Santa had a bell necklace and the 1st one didn't. Phew - I diverted that one! Well, until the next day she said, "you know mom, that other Santa we saw had a different looking beard". Hmmm...what do I say to a 4.5 year old?!? Thankfully she didn't need much of a reason and was happy with what I came up with (I honestly can't remember what I said, though!)

10 $1.00 bills made it into each stocking - thanks to Great Grandma Holwerda!

Checking out all his loot - complete with Cars band aides, a toothbrush & mementos (which he scarfed while we were at church!)