It's Christmas Time In The City...

Christmas has come another year!

Prior to breakfast, we opened our stockings with much delight and joyous shrieking.  The boys were clamoring for opening ALL the presents right away and were even so bold in their efforts to declare that the were not hungry.  Which is when Mom and Dad knew it was nothing but a concerted effort of the two to spread bovine excrement in the hopes we would fall for their nonsense.

We didn't.

Momma with Robby and Caleb prior to getting started.  What did I ever do to deserve such a beautiful family?

Caleb started and when he pulled out that big candy cane full of M & M's, he said somewhat sadly, "I can't eat thum. Too hard."   He's of course referring to his healing mouth from his latest surgery.  He can and has eaten them!

Hippie boy Rob when he pulled new football gloves out of his stocking.  Those are new swimming "jammers" by his right knee.  The book is another in a great series of books called Who Was ------?  This particular book is about Ronnie Reagan.

After stockings we had breakfast and then headed in to open presents.  But before we can do that, we read the Christmas story in the Bible in the hopes that both boys grow up with a keen sense of understanding and respect for why we REALLY celebrate this day.  This year Momma started reading with the boys at the beginning of December out of the kids Bible where each chapter is an Old Testament story that has God promising a savior, rescuer.  Then when you read the Christmas story, it ties it all together.  Cool concept and a great idea for kids to grasp the bigger picture of The Word.

Mom opening her gift from us silly boys.  It's a coffee mug with a photo of the lads on it holding a sign saying, "We LOVE mom...   and we really like coffee!" and two bags of coffee beans.

And daddy opening his gift, a set of six different styles of beer glasses.  I've tried two of them so far and think that they are wonderful!

Calebber McCheese with another lego set.  Caleb likes to build legos and then never play with them again. Robby doesn't like to build legos, but will play with them a LOT.

The boys with their remote control race cars!

Later on, G'ma & G'pa came down and we did another round of opening gifts.  G'pa's is that big ol' box in front of them (in case you couldn't see it, and G'ma's is that tiny little box in her hand.

The boys help G'pa open his, since they helped daddy wrap it and use up a lot of duct tape.

It's an Epiphone acoustic guitar!  Woooo-hoooo!!!  Daddy will be showing G'pa some basic stuff to get him started on this thing.  It's never too late!

Hippie boy scores yet another jersey.  This time of the inimitable Peyton Manning!

G'pa with a Johnny Cash reading/recording of some of his favorite Bible passages and what they mean to him.

...and hippie boy scores yet another jersey!  This time it's the daaaa-ble checker himself, Aaron Rodgers.

Caleb scores more legos.  I'm on the books to help him with that tomorrow night.

And last, the boys get cards and money from Great G'ma Pat & Arney.  Unecessary sure, but they did light up when they opened their cards.

And so it was, another Christmas come and gone.  Thankfully we were all here to enjoy another one together.  Here's hoping we have at least one more!

Don't want to get greedy...