Merry Christmas!

We had the most wonderful Christmas!  Here are a few of the highlights ...

grandma's traditional coordinating pj's for the kids 

(willard loved feeling ben's hairs)

 sam reacted with happiness and excitement ever single time!

(i love this age!)

 his HUGE stack

one of his favorite gifts was this rc monster truck!

 a whole bunch of lush bath bombs from her brothers :)

 an i-pod - exactly what she wanted! shrieks of joy!!

she love, love, loves it!

the older this boy gets the harder it is to please him ...

in fact since his gifts were more expensive his stocking was stuffed with crackers and candy ... he had looked at it first thing and declared it "weak!"  Dude ... where is the $ tree?

when he opened this box (entirely covered in packing tape, by santa, he he he) he was so surprised!

he didn't think he had a chance of getting the very thing on his list!

happily listening to music with the new (expensive) headphones

 trying to hide from my picture taking ...  i don't know if santa will even visit him next year! we will have to see if santa can forgive :)

 Steve and Clark surprised their own selves with snowshoes and then had no snow to go do their thing :( maybe next year.

Steve and the kids surprised me with a bose ipod speakers and a red polaroid instant camera! FUN!


We also had a few fun surprises for Grandma and Grandpa

 a handmade cutting board crafted by ben in woodshop this year

updated handprints of all the grandkids!


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Sugden Family Christmas
(the next day)

the clan
(Gevan and Gennelyn are home from their missions and John, Katie and the kids came to town ... so we were all there!)

Geven brought ben a shirt from guatemala!

sam and ben with cute betsy