Belated Christmas

It's always great to spend the day with family and we enjoy stretching out the Christmas festivities.  We took our big tree down the day after Christmas since we were not sure how much Scott would be able to lift after his surgery.  I couldn't take down everything, so we still have a little tree in the dining room so our celebration still felt 'Christmasy'.

The hot wheel ramp is still a hit with everyone - young and old.


Scott's extended family does a drawing to exchange gifts between the cousins, Aunts and Uncles.  We saved these gifts to open today - Liam was thrilled with the transforming bat car (not to be confused with the tranforming bat cave!), and Karsten thought the Operation game was so cool!  Thanks Aunt Bobbie and Uncle Steve!


Linda got Karsten a Lego set that he's wanted for a while - it has a Lego Hulk in it, what more could a guy want? He was pretty excited and was ready to go build right then!


It was a musical Christmas for Trent and Taylor.  Taylor wanted a bluetooth speaker and seemed excited when he opened this!  We hope he enjoys it!


Trent wanted these cool speakers that have water in them that changes colors and dances with the rythm of the music.


And, since it's always cool to be just liked your big brother, Liam was SO excited to get a Lego alarm clock just like Karsten.  Karsten's clock is Batman and Liam has Superman.  Now if they could just sleep in enough to let the alarms go off...


And, since Liam has a new obsession with tape, Linda got Liam some washi tape and he was sooo excited!


The last present from Linda and Leland was tickets to Marvel Universe Live. I had tried to think of somewhere we could go or something we could do that would be a fun experience for their Christmas present, and when I saw the commercial, I knew this was it.  I made 'tickets' for the boys and then we showed them a YouTube clip so they could see what it will be like.  They got excited and wanted to go now!


Leland is tough to shop for, but I remembered him talking about the bath soap from their Grand Canyon vacation, so I found it online for him.  I was worried he wouldn't like it, but he really seemed excited!


Once presents were open, Liam was ready to get started with his tape and wanted Grandma to help him open it now!


As everyone played with their new gifts, Karsten went to the table and started building his new set.  He did the whole thing himself with only a few assists from Scott and Trent.
 

Linda and Leland brought a ham from their local meat locker.  It turned out wonderfully - delicious!


We ended our great day with some yummy desserts and some more fun together.