Ashton Family: Christmas Day

Christmas was a lot of fun this year as the kids get older and understand things more. Kairingtin was the first up so I got her feed and ready until Reighlyn woke up around 7:30 then she waited as patiently as she could for Keegan to wake up. They were biting at the bit waiting for dad to go down and see if Santa came. After opening their presents from Santa, Kairington went to sleep and mom made breakfast while they played with their Santa toys. Then after breakfast was done and cleaned up we opened the other gifts one by one. It actually worked pretty good and it made Christmas morning last a lot longer. I don't think we finished opening presents until 10:30. Then I made nachos while Mike got everyone ready to go and get things cleaned up. We headed over to the Gleisbergs around 12:30 so we could have some lunch/snacks with them while we waited for Garth to call. We thought he was calling around 1 or 2 but didn't end up calling until 3. Once he called and gave us the number, we had to call him back, it took a couple of tries since he is in a village in Africa, then we had to connect to my dad and sister, Melia in Iowa. Then we had to call Tasha on a cell and had her conference in and have Thayne via text. There was a bad snow storm in Iowa and everyone was snowed in, so not everyone could make it to my dad's, so we got creative to get everyone together to talk to Garth. It was a good talk and we are all looking forward to him coming home in a couple of months! Then we cleaned up the toys that all the kids got out while we were on the phone and headed home. Mike and the kids played Gator Golf, a new game they got for Christmas, while I feed Kairington and got dinner made, then we ate and the kids were in bed by 6:30. They were very tired...it had been a long day and once again Keegan didn't get a nap so they were ready. Then Mike, Kairington, and I sat down to watch a movie and we were all asleep on the couch by 8:30 so we finally headed up to bed at 9:30. I guess we were all tired from a fun Christmas day.
Today we are just going to chill as a family since yesterday was a lot busier than we thought. So we are going to play games together that we got for Christmas, go build a snowman, watch movies, etc. I will post pictures later of the snowman we build.