A Berg Family Christmas

I was very excited this year to spend our first Christmas in our own home. I know, I know, we have been married for a while now. However, this is the  first year we have been homeowners and therefore the first year that I have had a desire to direct Santa to visit our home on Christmas Day.

We set up the Christmas Tree a few weeks before Christmas. Rebekah was fascinated by the lights and the ornaments. Cute girl. 

Christmas Eve Morning (not Christmas Day) I woke up to this. I know they started out in their beds the night before. I guess they were preemptively excited for Christmas morning. 

 A White Christmas and a gorgeous Christmas Tree. I had to move the ornaments back to their correct places on the tree that night because they had slowly migrated up and to the back during the weeks before Christmas. 

Christmas morning David was the first person to find our tin house full of chocolates before we opened presents. I was not surprised. 

Caleb was the first one to find the unwrapped Skylander we had put out to "guard" the presents. I was also not surprised. 

Adam was the first one to bring all his blankets down, sit on the couch, and start to tell me a story. Still not surprised. 

James was the first one to come downstairs and wonder what we were all doing awake at such an unearthly hour. I love this boy!

First presents of the day.

DVD's for everyone!

Some of us got more than one depending on how expensive they were ;)

David broke one of his later that same day. Oh David......

James enjoyed opening his new Rescue Bot. 

And gave me a happy smile as a thank-you. 

Caleb also got a new Rescue Bot to add to our growing horde.

Rescue Bots aside, this was really our Skylander Christmas. Lots, and lots of Skylanders to go with their video games for our Wii gaming console. 

The boys even got the next Skylander game in the series, something that we had told them we were not going to get until they achieved 100% completion in the other two games. Ha, ha fooled them ;)

Lizzie thought she needed to participate in Christmas as well and found herself a spot in the tree to observe the festivities. 

Rebekah woke up a little bit later in the day so we saved her presents for her until then (never wake a sleeping baby). She didn't know quite what to do with them but she was a good sport anyway. 

She even posed for a photo op. 

The dogs looked sort of forlorn on Christmas morning but cheered up once I gave them the four-foot-long rawhide bones that Santa had brought them. 

Poor Eric had to spend part of Christmas Day outside shoveling and cleaning up a little bit of our white Christmas.  I guess there is a price to be paid for enjoying Christmas in one's own home. 

David's favorite toy was this hungry, hungry hippos game which he carried around everywhere with him for days until I had to declare it a choking hazard for Rebekah and put it up. Look at that happiness! Merry Christmas everyone!