Christmas 2018!!!!

Our little nativity. Joseph, Mary, and a teeny tiny baby Jesus.

Molly was the angel and repeated all the declarations. It was so adorable.

We sang lots of Christmas songs. It was really fun to have the kids old enough to know a lot of them and their tunes to have the whole family singing. I love Christmas!

Santa spoiled everyone rotten! They have been painting in their coloring books and using Russ's tub markers to color in the tub, too! These kids LOVE coloring and Santa knew exactly what kind of coloring books everyone would like. Will already has a LOAD of dinosaur paintings hanging above his bed from his. I love that he likes to hang up EVERYTHING he does on his wall.

Santa came and it just looks SOOOOO magical!

Ruthie came in twice, Will came in once (but that was before we were asleep) and Molly came in super early and ended up in our bed with us. Eventually around 6am (or maybe 530?) Russ woke up so we decided we'd see what Santa brought!

Baby Grace got the very first present, after all the excitement of stockings (which, after awhile I thought we wouldn't ever make it opening presents because they were SOOOOOOOO excited about their stockings! It made me so happy that all the little things and traditions made them soooo happy!).

Molly was so excited to get an Elena doll. She loves Elena--she already had Elena shoes, an Elena purse, and an Elena nightgown.

Will was so excited about this dinosaur. But I loved how he waited patiently for everyone else to open their presents and still was super excited as he opened it.

Wearing her new clip-on earrings from her stocking.

Russ was very serious on Christmas mornings, haha, but he did like his fire truck, mostly because it makes noise.

Santa's present surprised Ruthie--in a good way. Her face was priceless, she was so excited!!!

Make-up! She has worn it pretty much every day and put it on pretty much everyone! Her happy smile was the best!

He named his dinosaur William and puts him in clothes and sleeps with him. It's the best.

Gracie's little doll for her very first Christmas!

Poor kid got strapped in his high chair for the duration of opening presents because he's a little demon boy. But he still got in on all the fun, chocolate, and present opening.

Will was THRILLED that mom and dad got him an adventurer set and vest to put all his new exploring tools. It was the greatest.

A unicorn necklace!!!!

Molly had Will's name for sibling gifts and got him this blue dragon. He loves blue and dragons are tied for first with dinosaurs, so this was a total win. So cute!

Mom got us all an electric griddle. She bought it while she was here and hid it under my bed, wrapped. I think she saw the sorry state of ours while she was here. Nobody was quite as excited as me for this present. It is awesome!

Everyone in their dress-up from mom and dad. I LOVE kids!!! And Christmas!!!

Ruthie got Grace the rainbow unicorn as her sibling gift. I think Grace likes it :)