Anyway, at 7:30am, little Payton comes in our room and asks to go downstairs. My first thought is that they were so tired from the Christmas Eve festivities that they actually slept in. I mean, it was super quiet downstairs. So I wake up husband, and we start heading down. The other girls doors are closed so I was thinking it was true, but as soon as I rounded the corner to the family room, I see the other three cuddled up, quietly watching TV. They were so excited to see us and begged to start on their stockings. Apparently, Kaylin shared with them that they were not to wake us, and therefore, they didn't.
Now I know most parents would be happy to sleep in a bit more, but husband and I were truly sad that we didn't get to see the look on their faces when they saw that Santa came and brought gifts!
Well the rest of the morning went along as planned, and the girls were very excited to "finally" go through their stockings and open their gifts from Santa and Mom and Dad. They exchange their gifts to each other on Christmas Eve.
As soon as they were done, husband decided he needed to go try his new (little) ramp I had bought him. It was freezing cold and icy, but he couldn't resist the temptation.
The rest of the family started arriving around 4pm, and the Wii is always a big hit to kill the time until we eat (and after). Luc, Dan, Haley, and Brian were really into a game of Wii tennis. So much so that while serving the ball, Dan (who is the tallest in the fam) hit the ceiling with the Wii remote! I should tell you that Dan's arms are tatted out by the kids and their new markers!
Goo-Goo B, let the kids go to town, putting Tattoos all over her. Check out her legs! Goo-Goo's Linh and Xuan were the same. I wish I took a picture with you all together showing your fabulous tattoos! Dang it!
Kaylin made little toe families, so I made them all smile and say "cheese!".
Tito Rob, decided to pass the time in with the new bop it that Haley got for Christmas.
After an amazing dinner of Turkey, ham, chicken adobo, shrimp, pasta, and more, we finally settled down to open presents. Tito Rob (Apparently he insisted on getting his own gift for us!), got the fam DJ Hero! We all went crazy with excitement! Especially, Dao!
Emma with her new, Bella and Edward barbies. Thanks Grandma! She loves them!
Pay and Livi, playing with pays new Zhu-Zhu pets. They played with them for a couple of hours!
Pay, modeling her new necklace from Grandma.
The DJ Hero was opened immediately and Dao was the first to take a turn. Can you see my sister, Andria's hand behind Rob? I think she was trying to be sneaky and take a pic of them without getting in any of my pictures!
One of the most entertaining activities of the night was the balloon animal kit that Dan got from B and Rob. He cracked it open and everyone started making light sabers, dogs, swans and beautiful hats like the one that Brian is wearing. Umm...Is that the "blue Steel" look from zoolander? haha!
Then it was on to dessert. Xuan made these pretty and delicious cupcakes with peppermint frosting.
B made some yummy carrot cake cupcakes with maple candies on top. My Mom made, a couple different kinds of fudge, and we had all kinds of cookies, and chocolate covered pretzels (Thanks Luc and Livi for sharing your yummy pretzels that you made with us!).
I think everyone left at almost 11pm and it was so lovely to chill at home with the family all day.
We are very blessed to have such a fun and loving family. Thank you all! We love you!
We finally got dressed and headed over to my sister, Andria's house to make cookies for Santa and eat dinner. This was round two, I didn't get a picture of the first round of kids decorating cookies. :(
Nana and Em are also besties and can't seem to get enough of each other! They play so well and giggle the entire time they are together!
Haley was very lucky and got to give baby Kaydalin a bottle. She is the youngest in the family and is the daughter of J.J., who is Sheree, Gabby, and Tyler's brother, and my bro in-law's nephew. 
These two have been friends since they were 3 years old and in pre-school together. They have had every class together since, that is until this year. Bridget is in a class that is down the hall from Kaylin, and they only have one recess together, so they don't get to see each other as much as they used to. We try to get them together every other week or so, but it doesn't always work out.
They are so funny! They had all these activities planned for the day, like having a tea party (one of their fave things to do here), but once they started playing Wii sport, they were having way to much fun to stop! Poor Bridget, got 
The second station was a 
Cousin Luc with his almost finished penguin. 
Here are some of the penguins! They turned out so cute and each one very different from the other!
We had pipe cleaners and beads set up for kids to make candy-canes, wreaths, pencil toppers...
The last station was sugar cookie decorating. You can't really tell, but the kids put mountains of sugar on top of the cookies.
She had to open wide to get the entire mountain of sugar in to her mouth. Most of it fell on to her plate, though. 
The little sisters (Pay and Livi) got to decorate cookies too!
They got way into it and I had to take off for a few to go check on some other kids.
When I came back, I noticed that all of their toppings had frosting on them but were on the side of their plate still. Turns out they were decorating, then scraping the toppings off and licking the frosting, only to start all over again! Silly girls!
After the party, the kids went to recess and a small nature walk. When they returned they had a healthy snack of pretzels, satsuma's, berries,and juice.
