We woke the kids at 6:30 AM so they would be ready when Nan, Nene, Ba, and Poppy arrived at 7:00 AM.  It was a very hard wait.


We busied ourselves by setting the table for breakfast.

Our guests arrived at 7 on the dot.
Nan was the courier for Marie’s gifts to us.  Marie had gone to Nan’s on Monday to make us these gorgeous cookie trays.

We started with gifts.  First Johanna handed out hers to her siblings.
She made a book for Katriel.

Who was elated!

She gave Stewart a dollar.  Her “second-to-last” dollar.

She made Nigel a book, too.

I stepped out to frost cinnamon muffins as Tabitha handed out hers.  She gave her siblings gifts she had specially selected when we went shopping.  She had play-doh for her younger sisters, candy for her brothers, and a new set of colored pencils for Marie.
Stewart and Nigel gave the little girls Peabody and Sherman.  Do they look happy?

And gave Tabitha and Marie the movie Brave.

The first gift Katriel opened was a Yoda doll.  Because doesn’t every three year old girl want a Yoda?

Then there were a lot of princesses.

superheroes

and other great gifts.

Stewart didn’t know what this is.  (A reversible, portable green/blue screen.)

A soccer ball that actually hold air.

Speechless with Narnia toys.

Disney CDs.

The girls sang on the praise team, and Stewart sang Messiah for service at 10:30. Then back home to rip open the toys. 

And the garage looks like Amazon puked here.

Merry Christmas!