Our Christmas traditions are... The kids 1st go through their stockings, which they scream more about the soda and candy in those stockings than any of their gifts. Check out the video below for proff.
Then we open our family gift. This year it was 2 DVD players for the van. They were a huge life saver on our 7 hour trip to Cali. the next morning.
Each child opens their "Santa" gift. Max, Hanna and Van each got a Wii game. They also got a Wii charger station and a Wii remote. (My brother got them the Wii last year and I haven't gotten them anything for it since then. They only had 1 remote and the batteries were always dead.) They have really enjoyed playing it daily during the break.
Notice the big gift in the back? That was to me from Danny. (We never get each other gifts, which actually stressed me out more knowing he got me something and I had to think about a gift for him). Anyway, I never took a picture of what he gave me, it was a beautiful framed picture of the Salt Lake Temple, but sadly the frame was broken and it was discontinued. Danny returned it and then when I started looking to buy another temple picture he said, "Christmas is over and I'm over spending." What's up with that?! What a stinker! I got Danny socks and right before he opened them he said, these better not be socks. :0 I also got him some really nice church shoes. I know, I'm boring. Anyway, Daisy got a Tangled doll with a matching Tangled dress for her.
And my personal favorite; Walt got his very own light-weight Dirt Devil vacuum and duster. As soon as we got it out of the box he was vacuuming the house.
We eat a big plate of a verity of our favorite fruits and have cider and hot chocolate for breakfast. This year Christmas was on Sunday, so we attended church.
After church we finished opening gifts. The kids each get each other gifts that they buy and pick out with their own money. I help the younger 2 of course. Then we go to Uncle Jeff and Aunt Cindy's house. Uncle Jeff (Danny's brother) just loves our kids, really he just has no little kids any more and enjoys the excitement that the little ones bring. This year he got them a computer with a lot of games already down loaded unto it. He presented a game to each child, he had them listen to a song to figure out "their" game. He even put an old childhood favorite on for Danny. I know that Jeff put in a lot of time on that gift and my kids have really been enjoying it! Too bad when Van realized Uncle Jeff was done presenting the gift he said I wanted an X-Box! (I say presenting, because anything with Jeff is way drawn out, it took a good 30 minutes for him to give them the full gift). Anyway, Uncle Jeff got a kick out of that one and will always remind me of the "wonderful" skills I teach my children. :)
This year we stayed the night at Uncle Jeff's and left the next morning to the San Diego mountain house for the "Gravell" family Christmas.
Christmas Morning...
I thought this was so funny of Daisy I just have to post it.
After church we finished opening gifts. The kids each get each other gifts that they buy and pick out with their own money. I help the younger 2 of course. Then we go to Uncle Jeff and Aunt Cindy's house. Uncle Jeff (Danny's brother) just loves our kids, really he just has no little kids any more and enjoys the excitement that the little ones bring. This year he got them a computer with a lot of games already down loaded unto it. He presented a game to each child, he had them listen to a song to figure out "their" game. He even put an old childhood favorite on for Danny. I know that Jeff put in a lot of time on that gift and my kids have really been enjoying it! Too bad when Van realized Uncle Jeff was done presenting the gift he said I wanted an X-Box! (I say presenting, because anything with Jeff is way drawn out, it took a good 30 minutes for him to give them the full gift). Anyway, Uncle Jeff got a kick out of that one and will always remind me of the "wonderful" skills I teach my children. :) 
