Christmas

We had a great Christmas!! I was a little sad that this would be our first Christmas away from home, but I was also excited to be able to stay home and not be running like crazy in the snowy Utah weather. This year Santa actually visited our house on Christmas eve instead of coming early since we weren't going to be gone. Brynlee was so excited, I wasn't sure if she would sleep all night.

Morning came and at about 7a.m. Gracen was the first to wake up. I got him a cup of milk and once he finished that we went downstairs to wake up Brynlee. When she walked out in the living room and saw that Santa left presents, her little face just lit up! Gracen kept grinning and pointing to the presents, he was ready to dig in!

Because we weren't traveling this year, Grandma's and Grandpa's all sent money for us to get the kids something with to put under the tree or gifts. It seemed like a lot of gifts so we decided to split it up and we just opened our family gifts first, then we got on the web cam with Grandma's and Grandpa's so they could see the kids open their gifts and to talk to them for a little bit. There were a few times that Brynlee got impatient while we were getting things set up and she just started ripping into the presents, even the ones that weren't hers!

Here are the 2 VERY SPOILED Thompson kids!!


This made me laugh! At first she was afraid of it, then she kept laughing at it when she finally put it on! Nate thinks she looks like a gypsy!

Brynlee didn't want the day to end, she made a special request to sleep in her princess castle!

We had a great Christmas!! It was so much fun to see how excited Brynlee and Gracen were about everything! We all had such an amazing day, and are especially grateful to our family and friends who were thinking of us and for the wonderful gifts that we received!