Third Sunday Christmas...

Third Sunday Christmas was on the 23rd this year and really kicked off our excitement!  We headed up a little early to get some one on one time with Great Grandma and Grandpa Larson and then made our way to the BIG celebration.

The kids, Charlie in particular, was super excited about taking pictures using the tripod.  He must have posed for twenty pictures...

A little "treat for road" to eat in the car ride up to Nooksack...

Grandma had all sorts of activities for the kids to do before we ate dinner...

LOVE that he still wants me to call him my baby...

From FOUR year olds...

...to SIX year olds...

These two were buddies all night and somehow managed a few treats in Grandpa's chair...

We attempted a photo of the whole lot and this was the best one I got...

We ate some delicious dinner...

Then all gathered around before opening presents...

We tried something new this year and passed out the gifts ONE at a time.  The kids were very patient and well behaved and it was fun to see each one's reaction to their gift.  Uncle Tom was pretending to be Oliver's voice in this picture, letting the kids know how much he liked his gift...

Jack LOVED his LEGOS from the DeHoogs!

And Emily LOVED her Barbie pony set from them as well...

All of a sudden there was a loud THUD on the back door and all of the kids rushed to the garage to see what Santa had brought...

After all of the excitement in the garage we gradually made our way back inside to open a few more gifts.  Vince was OVER-THE-MOON excited about his new hunting rifle.  He kept telling us he was ready to get an elk! 

Grandma and Grandpa got all of the kids these awesome sweatshirts.  LOVE this idea!

The kids ran around and played until the cheers turned into tears and we took our sign that it was time to head on home.