Christmas in Arizona

Christmas morning, Max woke up around 6 am and wandered up to find Nanny like he usually does. He found poor Nanny working as Santa's elf, still awake from the night before, and she sent him back to bed. Slowly everyone woke up for the day's festivities. Except silly Max who we finally woke up around 9. We gathered up in Nanny's room to rush down the stairs to see what Santa left us in our stockings. And believe it or not, out of all the fun stuff in those stockings, the boys' favorite was the fruit by the foot.
After the stockings, we ran into the living room to see what Santa left under the tree. Max was very polite and grabbed a present that was to Grandpa before searching for all his own. But then it was every man for himself--except if Max was helping you. We were certainly spoiled with so many fun things like Thomas trains, tennis rackets, coloring books, and tape measures. What more could we ask for. Thank you, thank you Santa, Nanny, and Grandpa.

But the day wasn't even close to being over. We still had family pictures (it was the only time we could get the whole family together, and even then, we still had to go take the pictures at someone's place of employment), do our gift exchange, and eat our big Christmas feast. We had such a wonderful Christmas and boy do we love this family!