2009 Christmas and days before

Some scenes from Xmas 2009. These are in reverse chronological order.Someone got a little bit too anxious about helping to get the cookies off of the refrigerator after dinner.
A yummy ham dinner
Elijah is prepared for battle
Andrew gets his first wallet.
Anna seems excited about something

Gracie loves her new dolly she got from Anna
This giant balloon that I got in my stocking is pretty fun!

Opening stocking at 7:30 am (seemed a pretty reasonable start time)
Helping with sugar cookies the day before Christmas
An early Christmas for Daddy. A new (well new to us) 2001 Volvo to replace that fun-to-drive minivan.

Busy with boxes

Its drop off time in the morning!

It must be Christmas if the UPS driver is helping the FexEx driver to unload his vehicle.
Monday's haul: 162 packages shipped via UPS with another 20 going to the very unhappy mail man.
Elijah helps to bring boxes up from the basement.
Every day the kids help the UPS driver load up the truck.