"Sappy" Christmas!

You know it isn't right when the Christmas Eve entertaining is done in the bathroom gathered around the toilet! I've never seen so many people gathered in one tiny bathroom taking pictures! We had to stand in the shower for there to be room for all of us. I'm just glad that my son didn't develop any more toilet issues after he was bribed to go potty and discovered a surprise waiting for him in there! Jayke has issues with his privacy when pottying and didn't want to go with so many people in the house. My sister, Sherri, bribed him by telling him that if he would at least go sit and try to go she would give him a surprise. He finally agreed and below is what he discovered when he opened the lid...




We all posed with the green monster and took numerous pictures. We told Jayke to go tell P'pa to come see what what was in the toilet. I think the exact words Jayke said to P'pa were, "P'pa! I have a surprise in the toilet for you come see!" I wish I had a picture of the look on my dad's face, but he obliged.




It was a crazy night. Jayke got sick, I ended up going to WalMart at 3a.m. to get Tylenol for him and ended up coming home with a new bike from Santa and a lot of other stuff. 3a.m. is the BEST time to shop WalMart! The next morning we began the marathon. Here is a shot of one side of the room...



....and the other...



I must have been really good this year because I got my new Nikon camera and my personal diecut machine! I was really surprised that I got both. Dad tricked me into thinking there was no way I was getting the camera by telling me he had got me the diecutter. I haven't been surprised in a lot of years so it was fun!

Here is Santa bringing in the 2 bushels of fruit for my mom's stocking...



Can you say overboard? All that stuff is her stocking! Her fruit stand was getting in our way all morning. Here is my dad receiving his favorite gift...A Hillary Clinton nutcracker! A gift from the Phantom. The Phantom shows up every year and drops off interesting gifts.



Jaykeb was excited to get all his gifts. His last one was this big Hummer which made his day and got the biggest squeal out of him.



I got other pictures of him opening stuff but they were not very good...now that I have my new camera though!!!I will be able to take better pictures...I hope. You know I've been blaming the camera all along, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the photographer.

That was our first Christmas. I have to go hit the after Christmas sales with my sister, niece, and Mom now so I will have to post about the others later. I've come down with Jayke's cold too so I'm not feeling well. Why do kids always get sick over Christmas?