Can you hear the noise level from these pictures?

We've got another countdown going on. 

We have the 13 times a day "how many more days until Christmas?" countdown.

And now we have the "how many more days until Benny and Jonah come back?" countdown. 

We had fun. 

Loud fun. 

The kind of fun that resulted in only a few "he hit me" or "so and so isn't sharing" or "he hurt my feelings"

And we can't forget Mr. Theo who gave me the baby fix I was in crazy need of. 

Yes, he took care of that fix by being a super happy easy baby who let me rock him to sleep right before they left. 

It was great. =)

There was very, very little of this because he had me wrapped around his little finger. 

We ordered some pizza and exchanged presents the other night. 

It was exciting, and we were hyper. 

And this lady discovered that the best way to get their attention for a picture at times like this was to tell them to make silly faces. 

It works.

After pizza we moved on to opening presents. 

Ya, we were mean and made them wait until almost 8pm to open their presents. 

Wanna guess how many times we were asked when we could open presents?

Its probably in the hundreds. 

No joke. 

And about 80% of those were Bryce's inquires. 

 

 Some of us were only interested in the wrapping paper.

Some of us took off with our new 3-D making equipment looking all scholarly. 

Some of us tried to explain how our new secret holding machine worked to a little one who couldn't stop thinking about getting his hands on it to slobber all over it. 

And then there were two other little boys who took off with their new loot and weren't heard from for quite some time. Pretty much until they needed food or water.

Well, that was our Christmas celebration day. 

Now we're catching up on our sleep anxiously awaiting Christmas day and the return of our cousins a few days later.