And its done. Christmas is now over till next year. I hope everyone had a really great Christmas and Boxing Day... if you went out to the malls today to find a bargain, you're a braver person than me! This is the one day of the year that I will NOT ever venture into a mall/store/shopping centre because people are crazy! I'll find a deal another day :)

Here are a few of the pictures from the last few days. Surprisingly enough, I didn't take too many. I wanted to enjoy the time with my kids and my family, and being behind the camera all the time takes away from it. I love to have pictures, but it means so much more to the kids for mommy to watch instead of taking pictures all the time. I learned to put the camera down, and just enjoy the moment.

Here is Joey on Christmas Eve, just before going to bed. He fed the Reindeer special reindeer food and read a Christmas book, then he hung a special magic Santa key on the door so that Santa could get in. We left cookies and iced tea, because that is what Santa loves the most ;)

This is our tree.... duh. I guess thats obvious. This is before the whirlwind hit and toys and wrapping paper flew all over the living room and various other rooms in the house!

And here's my little man opening his gifts! He loves the play centre, and its almost like he was posing for the camera. My little ham - just like his big brother.

I absolutely LOVE this picture of Joey! The look on his face is just so perfect, and he looks gorgeous! But of course thats just me being a proud mom! Anyways... he wanted to play with the box that his pirate ship came in, so this is it. Pretty cool!

Another pirate ship picture... so cute!

Here's Taylor, Mathew, Joey & Chris at Grandma Barb's and Grandpa Al's place. Every year they each get some kind of favourite food - Taylor and Mathew love pickles and Joey loves ketchup! Chris just likes everything, so it didn't matter what he got... see how he's eyeing up everything else?!?!?

This is what the grandkids got from Grandma & Grandpa Braniff! Lets just say that they were a bit excited!

Here's Joey with his most favourite person in the whole wide world! He loves his aunt Kim, and I think she loves him back :)

This is the pirate ship that Joey loves so much! Its huge, has tons of pieces
and came with a treasure box that plays "A Pirate's Life For Me", so I'll
probably hate the toy in a few days when pieces are missing, or I step on
something, or when he plays the song too much!

The boys were really spoiled again, as you can see. But we had a great day. We had an amazing dinner at my mommy's, and really loved being with our special visitors for the day. And I say special in a good way people, not the way you're thinking, so don't hit me when you see me :) Today was dinner at the Leatham's place with Jason's side of the family, and that was another lovely day. The kids got to take out the 4 wheeler, so they were happy! I didn't get to see it, but I was told that Joey went over a bump and went flying! He loved it!

And what did Santa leave for me, you ask??? How about a few books that I wanted, a nice blue jacket (which Chris puked on!), a coconut bath set, a Suduko game, some pickled onion Monster Munch (mmmmm, good, and they're all gone already!), a few Macintosh things, and much more. I also received a pretty special gift from my aunt Mo - a koala bear just like the one that we all used to fight over when we were little. Now I can scratch my chin just like Kevie used to do with his!

All in all, another incredible Christmas. I'm just tired now! So its off to bed for me, and maybe I'll post tomorrow, maybe not. We'll see what the family wants to do :)