Christmas #3 with The Mota Family

After Santa came Christmas morning, we quickly cleaned up as much as possible and got ready for Stephen's family to come over for Christmas day. Everyone came over and enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner (ham, roast, dressing, potatoes, sweet potatoes, salad, cornbread, deviled eggs, and several delicious desserts). With full bellies, we decided to open gifts! Preston was pumped! He got everything he wanted and MORE! Kelsey still wasn't sure what to think, but was very excited about it all. She loved all of her new toys too! We spent the day with the family, kids played with their new toys, we grazed. had a few adult beverages and played some games. It was so nice! We are very blessed to be surrounded by such loving family! It was another wonderful Christmas day! Always sad to see it come to an end!

Sweet boy thrilled its Christmas day!

Showing Papa his new toys

Excited about more gifts

He loves his Papa!

And his Mimi!

Medieval Times! AWESOME

Thanks Aunt Steph and Uncle Gene!

Our Brave Knight

Kelsey got an almost life sized Minnie!

And a stroller for her Bity Baby doll

Spending some time with Uncle Gene

The aftermath

Kelsey even got a little bounce time

SANTA CAME TO VISIT!!!!

WOW! What a fun Christmas morning! The kids must have been extra good this year, because they definitely made Santa's "nice" list! Preston had asked Santa for a trampoline and a "pooping dog game" aka Doggie Doo and Kelsey wanted her first American Girl Bity Baby doll. Well, Santa delivered everything they wanted and MORE! I think I was the most excited person in our house Christmas morning. I was up, ready to go and the rest of my house slept in until 9:30! I was pacing the floors and blasting Christmas music trying to wake everyone up to see what Santa brought! Finally everyone woke up and I could barely keep Preston in our room while daddy brushed his teeth. He was trying to push me down to go see what Santa had brought! The excitement quickly filled the house and what a joyful morning we had! Kelsey was thrilled with all of the paper, bows and candy canes on her first Christmas morning, while Preston couldn't decide what to play with first. It was a blast, loved seeing these little ones eyes light up with the joy of Christmas morning!

Putting out reindeer food to prepare for Santa

We sprinkled the whole yard!

SO excited

A little more

Santa CAME!!

Preston's load from Santa

Kelsey's load from Santa

Our stockings

Still sleeping, WAKE UP!!! SANTA CAME!

The calm before the storm

HE REALLY CAME!

Thrilled to see his goodies

LOOK!

Presents from mommy and daddy

More presents from mommy and daddy

Kelsey's first Christmas!

Checking out her goodies

Sweet baby looking at her new baby

She likes the paper

Our sweeties

Stocking time

What is all of this?!

LOVED the candy cane!

More fun!

Sees his trampoline set up outside!

Our grateful boy saying "Thank you so much!"

More fun with the candy cane!

Mommy and Kels opening presents

Look at me!!

AWESOME

Our silly bunch having fun!

What a beautiful morning!

Jingles and Bell

Jingles and Bell are our favorite little elves that Santa sent us this year to watch over the kids and report back to Santa each night on the kids behavior! We had so much fun with them this year. They did all kinds of fun stuff for the kids! Below are most of the days captured on film so we can remember their visits for years to come. Thanks Santa for sending us the best elves ever! And thanks Jingles and Bell for everything!!

DAY 1

Excited to see that Jingles and Bell have arrived

Showing baby sister

They brought an advent calendar to count down the days until Christmas

So fun!

DAY 2

Caught playing Connect Four

DAY 3

I forgot to take a picture, but the kids got Christmas jammies

DAY 4

Just hanging out

DAY 5

Brought a couple of Christmas books to read

DAY 6

Keeping a look out for Santa

DAY 7

Sack race with some of our toys

DAY 8

They brought us a gingerbread house

Actually it was a village!

We had fun putting it together

DAY 9

Paints and coloring books

DAY 10

They got captured by Preston's army men

DAY 11

Reading some new books for P & K in the bean bag chairs

DAY 12

Brought some Jingle Bells for Preston to take to his class for mom to be Mystery Reader

DAY 13

Choo Choo, Gingerbread Men coming through

SO fun

DAY 14

Snowball fight! AND they brought the kids magic snowballs from the North Pole!

DAY 15

So sleepy from their travels

DAY 16

Playing with the brave knights and the castle

DAY 17

Hanging in the stockings and delivered some fun stuffed animals

DAY 18

They brought some cute aprons so the kids could help us in the kitchen

DAY 19

Brought some new Christmas games

DAY 20

We had a visitor "Scout" (Riley, Kaylin and Kinley's elf) came with  Jingles and Bell to deliver some cookie stuff while the kids cousins were here visiting

DAY 21

Jingles and Bell were in the ICE box with tickets to ICE!

Scout was helping show us where they were!

DAY 22

Hiding in the tree with a couple new movies

So excited to see what they brought today!

DAY 23

Brought a map of the North Pole and an authentic Elf training manual to see what the elves and Santa were up to on this busy day

DAY 24-The last visit before Santa comes!

Jingles and Bell were sad to say goodbye! Santa would come tonight! They brought Christmas jammies, slippers, hot chocolate & stuff to make cookies and cupcakes for Santa

Preston was allowed to give them a hug and kiss goodbye

They will be missed

Kelsey's turn to give hugs

Fun first Christmas season with these elves!