Christmas

We spent Christmas in AZ with my family. We always have such a good time and the boys are always so excited. I think much of the reason is that it is always better weather than at home and they spend a lot of time outside and at the nearby park. The favorite present this year was the cheap M&M light sabers Santa left in the stocking. They ran around with those things all week long and even now 3 months later, they get a ton of play time.

Green for JJ

Blue for Ryan

My 3 cute Jedi

Red for Jack

Jack seemed to enjoy these toys the most.  He would grab two and just keep turning them on.

Can you guess what JJ is?  A pirate, with an eye patch he designed himself.

Each boy asked Santa for a Slinky

And Ryan asked for a blue train.  We certainly did not need another train at our house, so Santa was kind enough to brainstorm and find a Thomas flashlight.  It fit the bill and was multi-purpose

Jack was not interested in opening presents.  Weird, I know because most kids his age are all about tearing paper and playing with boxes.  He left most of his gifts untouched and we brought them home still wrapped.  Santa left this ball popper, which was not wrapped, so Jack was perfectly content to play with this.  I also got him to unwrap a stacking toy, which was also hugely popular and today is still probably his favorite gift from Christmas.

Santa also brought the boys scooters and my parents have this long hallway that they rode up and down while they were waiting for an adult to take them outside to ride their scooters.  It was so nice to be in Arizona because Utah got tons and tons of snow and ice and they never would have been able to ride their scooters if we were home.

For me, the nicest part of being home is that the kids have someone (or in this case 4 someones) who are new and they can talk their ears off, and I am completely uninteresting and they don't talk to me as much.  We had a great time baking cookies and visiting places with Christmas, but resting was the best part of the trip.