2014 Christmas

Christmas morning - the kids awoke around 6am and were SO EXCITED that Santa came and left gifts by the fireplace and filled their stocking with goodies. Tanner and I dragged ourselves out of bed and quickly showered so we were ready to open presents by 7am~

 Riley was excited because the others were excited. However, she didn't understand how to unwrap presents and mostly became happy when she was carrying around Jayden's gifts~

I made a stipulation that the kids had to take family pics before they were allowed to open the presents under the tree. Chase and Jayden were most agreeable, Riley didn't really understand the message~ 

Chase loves playing games with Papa~ 

Jayden loved playing with her soccer ball with Daddy~ 

Around 3PM, our other guests showed up for Christmas dinner. We had Grandma Nish and Ron, Uncle Marcus, Auntie Naomi and Uncle Henry, Bryan, Erin and Sean. There was a grand total of 15. We had ribs (BBQ'd by Marcus, tri-tip steak, candied potatoes, chinese chicken salad, roasted artichokes, potato salad and rice for dinner. It was all very yummy. For dessert, Bryan brought a Paradise cake from King's Hawaiian and Erin and Sean brought cookies from Torrance Bakery. 

Chase and Jayden were excited that there were more gifts to open~ 

Grandma Nish gave Jayden some wonderful dress up things~ 

Kona joined us too - it was good to have a dog in the house again~