Christmas Day 2010 (part 1)

We had a great Christmas Day...this is part 1...before we ran out of room on the camera and had to take a break!
Here are a few pictures of the favorite presents...the family helicopter...purchased by Santa last night after deciding it would be worth it! It has already provided a lot of entertainment.
Secret Santas gave Caleb the fire truck, which has all kinds of noises and lights!
Secret Santa's Chuck for Skyler...very cool toy! The boys played with these forever, and it was near impossible to get them to open the rest of their presents!
These are stained glass from Jon's dad, Mickey for Skyler, Lightning for Caleb, and stocking for us! He does a great job at that!
Jon loves the Patriots, so the boys gave him this potato head!
Fun desk sets...complete with markers, crayons, stencils, paper...etc...
By this time they had opened all the presents from us, except their bikes, which are in the next one. They had a blast, but it was a busy morning. All Skyler wanted to do was play with the truck, and breakfast was sure a chore! I made individual monkey bread on muffin cups, thinking that would be easier since they don't like getting sticky, but man it was still rough! And I was grateful presents were finally over...

Christmas Eve 2010

Every year growing up, we always opened a present on Christmas Eve, and it was usually PJs, slippers, etc... So starting this year, and from now on, we're doing jammies on Christmas Eve. By next year, maybe I'll be able to make matching ones! :)

But here they are opening their presents...they were so excited and couldn't wait for Christmas Eve to come!
Caleb showing off his jammies...Caleb got Phineas and Ferb, and Skyler got Thomas! Perfect for them!
Here are the boys putting out cookies and milk for Santa. Caleb wanted to make sure Santa got 6 cookies and an entire glass of milk. He made sure Jon filled it up all the way!
We finally got them in bed, and started getting everything ready. They didn't go to sleep until about 830, but since they're so small, Santa was able to get all the presents put out without them even noticing! :) What a simple blessing of having little children.

Christmas Recipes 2010

So this year we did very simple food on Christmas...just finger foods and snacks all day!

But here are a few things I tried, and we loved!

Cocktail Meatballs from Allrecipes.com

Hidden Valley Cheese Ball

...and this is what I made the cheese ball look like! Christmas Package Cheese Snack


The meatballs are very good and the sauce is incredible and so easy. Just chili sauce and grape jelly! And the cheese ball, according to my mom and hubby, was very good. I don't like cheese balls in general, but I wanted to make the package!