Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year's

Just a warning...this post has a lot of pictures. Some of the pictures were out of order but I'm too tired to try and figure out how to fix them. We has so much fun this holiday season and although I was very glad to get the house back to order we sure had a wonderful time with our families. So here goes...

CHRISTMAS DAY

Braden got a magnifying glass in his stocking that he thought was funny. I would put it up to my face and it would make my eye look big which he got a big kick out of. Then he would put it up to his own face and smash his nose up against it and say his nose was big. What a silly kid.

At first the boys only noticed the kitchen Santa brought them and totally disregarded their stockings. After playing for a while Braden noticed his stocking and asked "what's this?" I told him it was his stocking from Santa and that he could look at if he wanted to. Then Dalin figured it out and they got really excited. This picture is them looking through all the stuff. This is right when Braden noticed his stocking. He had the biggest smile on his face. It was like seeing magic take hold.

When the boys woke up Dalin came running through the kitchen and said "Santa really came!" They were soooo excited about this kitchen and played with it for a good half hour before they realized they had more stuff.

Dalin loves marbles, but we've never had any of our own because they've always been too young to not put them in their mouths. (yes, we have a baby coming so we have to be extra careful when this is brought out.) But this year Dan and I decided to give him this marble maze thing for Christmas. He and Braden love it. You can build it a million different ways so they had a lot of fun putting it together. Again, every time we opened something they could play with we had to stop and let them play with it for a while until they made a request to open another gift.

Dan helping the boys put it together.

This is Dalin opening the marbles. His face just lit up when he saw the picture on the box and could not wait to open it and get it out.

I know these are so out of order, but here are the boys with some of their stocking stuff. I tried to get them to pose for a good picture with their loot, but couldn't get them to settle down long enough. I should've tried the day after Christmas after we'd settled down a bit, but oh well. Dalin was very excited about these bath crayons and all day kept making a request to get in the bath so he could use them.

Dan and I also got them some big Thomas Train floor puzzles since they both love puzzles so much. They were a big hit and again we had to stop everything so we could do the puzzles right then and there. So cute. Here' Dan and Braden with their finished product...Percy.

Here's Dalin with James. He can do the puzzle all by himself.

And here's Braden opening some gifts. Above he is opening a Little People garage. He loves cars and roads and driving so we thought this would be good. He does love to play with it.

After we opening presents and our house we went over to the Rounds' house. Here the boys are playing with Hungary, Hungary, Hippos that my mom gave to all the grandkids to play with at her house. My boys loved it. Dalin now likes to pretend he's a hippo when he's eating mini marshmallows.

Here is Braden with his cousin Kyla who gave him this doctor's kit. They boys have had a lot of fun with it, especially since we just went to the doctor a couple of days ago.

Here's Dalin and Braden with cousins Bailey and Kyla waiting oh so patiently to open all those presents stacked behind them. BOXING DAY

In England they celebrate boxing day (the day after Christmas) so it's kind of become kind of a tradition to go to Dan's mom and Ron's house on that day and spend the whole day with them. We always had a great big Christmas dinner that's oh so good and the boys love going to Grandma and Grandpa's house.

One of the gifts the boys got were these tool boxes with screw drivers and hammers that they love to play with. This was a big hit with them. For some reason the other pictures I put on here of boxing day didn't show up and I can't figure it out so I guess you only get to see a couple of them. (I get very frustrated when technology gets the better of me!) NEW YEAR'S DAY

For New Year's we went up to Malad to see Grandma and Grandpa Roper. It's hard to get around to see everyone during the holidays so we often have to spread it out. But the boys love having multiple Christmases. This year they got these motorized trucks. Dalin got a crane and Braden got a fork lift, both of which drive and move and play music and move their cranes and lifts by the push of a lever. They LOVE these. What a fun toy for little boys.

Here is Grandma Roper helping Braden get his fork lift out of the box.

And here they boys are with their trucks. I think grandpa liked to play with them almost as much as boys did. A couple of times Dalin had to remind grandpa that it was his truck.