Christmas Day

Christmas Eve night someone was in our room every hour asking if they could get up. Myles and Mason both couldn't sleep and finally I told them to watch Minecraft videos on their tablet just so that I could get some sleep. Max came in many times and finally I told him not to get out of bed until I told him it was morning. About 6:30 AM I woke up to him screaming and crying in his bed. When I went into his room to see what was happening he said "I need to go to the bathroom!" He thought he wasn't allowed to get out of bed even to go to the bathroom! Marshall, on the other hand, slept peacefully the entire night because of his sleep machine.

I think Grandma might have been just as excited as the kids, because shortly after Max's screaming, she was upstairs getting everyone ready. I woke up McKay who was confused but picked up on the excitement pretty quickly.

When the kids came downstairs there were lots of squeals and jumping for joy. I was able to catch a few videos
Mason gave McKay a trumpet (like Mason's)

Christmas afternoon we left the house a disaster to go to Jessica's for dinner. I have a little too much of my mom and grandma Milne in me, because it almost kills me to leave the house such a mess. 

We had a great Christmas Dinner at Jessica's and the kids loved playing together. We gave her kids this teepee to play in, and it fit all 7 boys!

One of Myles' presents was a new computer! (actually, Marshall's old computer but he didn't know). He was thrilled and we set it up so that he can make Minecraft videos and post them to a blog (www.minecrafteagle.blogspot.com).

Below are some videos of Christmas morning.

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