Christmases of the past ..

On Christmas morning i make everyone sit on the fireplace at moms and i get out the tripod and take a group pic .. these are so much fun to go back and look at .. we started in 2000 .. here are just a few ..

this is 2005 .. that was the year that ellie covered her face in every picture that i took ..

2006 .. look at little cash man in his christmas pj's ... ellie is wearing her new ballet outfit that aunt kimmy sent her .. check out uncle matt's super fancy tuxedo shirt ..

2007 ... the year that cash cried everytime he got his picture taken ... i am wearing the same pj's as last year .. i am going to have to work on that ..

2008 .. can you tell that Jenny got a nicer camera .. man i can .. and look we have grown .. our new additions are .. at the time the picture was taken .. Matt's finance Samantha (remember they got married in October of this year) and her two super neat kids Luke and Kali .. and look cash is not crying !

this is 2008 as well .. we were lucky enough to have Hank and Denise with us for Christmas morning that year .. look how pretty Denise looks .. and Hank is so handsome .. and the rest of us are in our pj's .. Hank and Denise were going onto Grammy and Pop's in Ramona .. you will also notice Kit and Ruthie are in the picture as well ..

Christmas Morning goes a little like this at our house .. the kids wake up screaming that Santa has come .. Santa has come .. we get up ... look at all the fun stuff that Santa brought .. then we open a few more little presents .. make coffee .. then we lug the rest of the presents up to mom and dad's to open .. open more presents .. take group pic .. then we eat ... mom makes a HUGE breakfast .. bacon .. eggs .. hash browns .. fried potatoes .. biscuits .. the works .. then we go home and are totally lazy the rest of the day .. most years we don't even get out of our pj's or take a shower .. it is a great day !!!