Christmas Day

First matter of business…Did Santa eat all the cookies??  Indeed he did!!!

 

Cassie was excited about her new clothes, books and new curtains for her room!

 

Out of all of Dallin’s presents, he was most excited about the Little Debbie Christmas Tree Brownies…go figure. :)

 

Parker was most excited about his brand new camera and hiking backpack!

Little did he know what was coming next…

After we opened Santa gifts, we took a break to eat breakfast.  After breakfast, we opened up the family gifts under the Christmas tree.  Parker happened upon a suspicious package under the tree.  The tag said, “To Parker…From Parker”.  Hmmmmm…very interesting indeed! He was a bit confused. 

Story time…Parker has been saving up his money for quite a while to purchase something really neat.  His original plan was to buy a Nintendo Dsi, and had finally earned enough $ for it.  One day I happened to bring up the idea of a laptop.  He loved the idea! He knew that a laptop would cost more $ than a Dsi, but he was still willing to wait until he had earned enough. He had $200 saved.  I told him that the only way he could get a laptop for that cheap was if there was a great deal on Black Friday.  Thanksgiving rolled around, and lo and behold there was a $200 laptop at Walmart.  We told him that chances were that in order to get the laptop, you had to spend the night at Walmart.  Stan and I weren’t sure that we were willing to do that.  After getting home from the Thanksgiving festivities about 10 pm Thanksgiving night, Stan decided to drop by Walmart to see if there was already a line for the laptops. He called and told me that they only had 15 available laptops, and 15 people were already in line and had their tickets.  Bummer!!  He ended up staying at Walmart all night anyway so he could purchase some other items and then went to Target afterwards.  At about 7:30 a.m.  after he was done shopping, he decided to go back to Walmart.  He remembered that he had seen a laptop on display and thought he could ask about it…smart man!! It was still there and so he asked if he could buy it. The sales associate said Yes! And at 10% off!! Woohoo!!! Leave it to Stan the Man!! We were SO excited!

The morning after Thanksgiving, I told Parker that his Dad had tried to get the laptop…but I purposely only told him the first 1/2 of the story. :) We thought we’d keep it a secret and surprise him with it on Christmas. Oh boy was he excited!!  He couldn’t even believe it! It was a fun Christmas moment.  Kind of nice when your kids can buy their own Christmas presents. :)

He was even more excited when he discovered that his Uncle Jared had downloaded a bunch of cool games onto his laptop!

 

After all the presents were opened, we thought we’d get a little exercise in by playing our new Wii “Just Dance” game.

 

 

                                                          Everybody was happy!!

 

 

And then we were off for food, family and fun with the Phelps’ and the Roberts’.

 

Another Christmas to remember!