More Christmas!

Christmas morning was as exciting as ever. This was our "gaming" Christmas. Each of the kids received their own little gaming thingy. Ty and Emery got Nintendo DS and Piper got a Leapster. And then we were shocked to receive a family gift from the parents of a Wii. So the whole gaming world has exploded in our house. Before it was just Mike who had one or two games he enjoyed on the PS2. Now even mama's getting into the experience. We were a little worried how we would have to control the kids and the amount off time they spent on their games...but it hasn't been too bad. With a small exception of Mike and Ty's addiction to Lego Star wars. Mama may have a new addiction when she opens up the Wii Fit Cheer Game that came in the mail today! Yeah!
Anyway, back to Christmas...here are a few from Christmas morning. I didn't take many pictures. Piper with her Pink Pony she asked Santa for. She doesn't play with it. Her favorite toy out of everything is a tiny stuffed Chiwawa(i really have no clue how to spell it) she got from Ty. Emery with her DS and her sister's Pet Shop.

Ty with his DS.

The Giant dog that things he's a lap dog still.
Here's Emery with the Wii...she very good at it. Although they play Wii in PE class. (interesting).

Mr. TL who enjoyed all the activity.

The Friday after Christmas we headed up to Celebrate with family in Seattle. Mike had a surprise for us and my parents up his sleeve. We had no clue what was going on until he took us to a nice steakhouse and handed us all little gift bags each containing a Nutcracker! I guessed right away that we were going the the Pacific Northwest's Nutcracker! We all loved it. Even Ty...who was into the mice and the sword fighting.

Here we are having another "Christmas" morning at Grandma & Grandpa's Beach.

Then Mike and our Brother-in-Law Robert planned a joint family party. All my family in Seattle and all (aside from Jim) of Mike's siblings and families. It was very fun! We did a gift exchange game that was pretty funny.

It was a jam packed weekend...but so fun and I am glad we did it! I'll leave you with a pic of Pip having a 3-year-old conversation with her BBF Zeke on the car ride home. Im pretty sure Zeke was in a car ride himself traveling to family.