Christmas Day!

Christmas morning came early at our house, though not earlier than most mornings......they're all early! We gathered the kids together and showed them their special presents that Justin and I set up the night before. We don't really talk about Santa or where they come from, but they are out and they were excited because they got Thomas stuff and were super into it at the time. Sadly, not so much now, though we have played a ton with our train track which is always fun. Phoebe got her first tea set.

The boys had an outing a week or so earlier, with Aunt Beth and another CLS provider/friend, Ben Winkler (aka Mr. Ben) to the dollar store to purchase gifts for us and for each other. It was interesting to see what they chose! This cat was Lewis' gift for Owen and Owen really liked it! Lewis' other presents were sadly really for him, and were major stimming objects that we had to put away. It was a good try! Owen's gifts were somewhat more thoughtful, but still pretty random!

We opened these presents from each other and then got ready for church which met at the coffee shop and was a really nice time of worship on Christmas! It so rarely happens that way. We had lunch after church, and then started crazy gift opening with the Reitmeyer clan.


This was Phoebe's pile of gifts as we were getting started. She needed help this year!


Here she is playing with a chewy blankey gift.


We always have a "Happy Birthday Jesus" cake from DQ. The boys were so excited to sing to baby Jesus this year and to help blow out the candles.

I think that wraps up 2011! Merry ultra-late Christmas!!