Christmas 2015

Someday my children will sleep in on Christmas. And it will be wonderful. Until then, we'll keep sticking Grandma Pam in their room to entertain them between 4 and 530 when we finally give in and get up haha. Thanks for taking one for the team, Mama!

The boys came out in a cute little train and lasted about four seconds until one child made a less-than-grateful comment about which water bottle Santa brought them and I schlepped them back to their room so quickly their heads might have spun hahahaha. One pep talk about being GRATEFUL NOT GREEDY later, they were released back into the living room again. I don't joke around about that, yo.

Because seriously, there was soooo much to be grateful for! Here's the close-up of Clyde's (left) and Will's (right) stockings/gifts from Santa. Clyde got a basketball to go with the basketball hoop he received as an early gift a couple weeks prior (if I blogged chronologically, y'all'd know that...). Will's B-I-G gift was a microscope. He randomly announced that he really. really. wanted one sometime around December like 5th and then Santa was randomly talking with... another Santa? I guess?... and hit upon a pretty mutually beneficial trade idea. It's cool, that's a thing.

And here are Jack's (left) and Carma's (right) hauls as well.

Jack once again receives the award for cutest gift recipient. Santa killed it by fulfilling pretty much all of Jack's random 'wishes' - including 'blinds for the van so the sun doesn't get me', aka those window shades that Jackers is holding in the middle picture. Jack also got a Star Wars water bottle, soft blanket, underwear, and other random assorted goods.

Carma slept in a teensy bit longer than the boys and was somewhat unsure of life in general when she came out to the living room. Luckily a cinnamon roll and pretending her new tights were a phone helped warm her up!

The microscope got plugged in prettttty quick so that our little scientist could begin examining various samples: blood, human kidney, etc, etc. (I promise the other Santa had a legit reason for having this stuff on hand haha...) Turns out Pops had a microscope as a kid as well, so he and Will had a great time checking this one out together.

Clyde got a million legos and promptly put together a million battle scenarios.

Some random shots... Jack (and Will) also got legos, Will got a stethoscope which everyone passed around and looked adorable using, Carma was just darling in general...

Chuck and I opened our gifts, aka socks for me and a wallet for Chuck because apparently none of those things should have holes and ours did haha.

We place a great deal of importance on food on Christmas day... mostly food that is easy and delicious and takes little to no work. So breakfast is cereal (sugary!!) from Santa, brunch is cinnamon rolls (and Star Wars pancakes this year since Grandma was here!) and dinner was Papa Murphy's pizza aka my favorite that is a splurge and wonderful and was also eaten on the living room floor since the kitchen table had def been taken over by legos at that point ;).

Oh man, Carma got a stroller and baby doll from Grandma Pam and it was the cutest thing to watch her open it and sign baby and then push the stroller around and around and around and she only tried to sit in it once :).

The boys all opened their gifts from my mama before she headed home (something about having woken up really early? who knows ;) ). Will got a gecko watch aka a very real desire of his heart and Clyde got the new Rick Riordan book aka the only real desire of his heart and Jack got Star Wars books and Star Wars legos alllll for hiiiiim that he doesn't have shaaaare with brothers aka a very real desire of his heart. (spoiler alert: they're all mixed in together now anyways hahaha).

At some point the kiddos did their little sibling gift exchange which was darling. I'm a dreadful person and don't remember who... had... whom? but Clyde got markers, Will got a BB-8 hat, Jackers got animals/shapes for the bathtub, and Carma got a little Sofia the First doll. I loved how excited they were to watch each other open their gifts. So cute.

Grandma and Pops gave Carma a cute baby doll and it was so funny to watch Carma sidle up to Pops to have him free the doll from her plastic/cardboard bindings. And then Carma promptly got a clean diaper and insisted Grandma put it on the doll ha!

 Uncle Sam sent the boys some Nerf guns and Grandma and Pops gave each of us one (including me and Chuck and Carma!) so basically the Izatts are armed and ready for anything!

This was the first year we've had Chuck's parents in our home for Christmas day (we usually celebrate with them before or after) and it made the day extra special.  

Randomly Carma wanted her coat and boots on... and then found her favorite bear (from Christmas last year)... and was just as cute as can be. We're all kind of obsessed with this girl.

Of course, Chuck and I are also pretty enamored with her three older brothers too. I love Christmas and I love my family and I love Jesus so obviously it was a great day ;).