Christmas Eve and Christmas at the Manis House

After Christmas eve service we came back to the house and mom and dad were with us. The kids got to open their Christmas Eve Present which are new PJ's and put them on. Once settled dad read "Twis the Night Before Christmas" to all the grandkids. The kids all then headed to bed so Santa could get to work. The past 2 years with the kids it has taken the Adults to wake up the little ones. Well they are finally in "normal" child mood when it comes to Christmas morning - they had to wake us up!!! They did sleep till 7am but then they were up and ready to go. The funny thing was they came to wake us up to tell us Santa had brought them Chapstick - forget the skateboard, "computers" and MP3 players. I just laid there laughing!!! We had a great day with my parents over for the day, ate our way through breakfast then snacks and then dinner.