Merry Christmas 2015!!!

Excited boys!

Stockings!

The boys came into our bedroom at 4:30!  We told them it was too early and had them go back to bed for awhile.  Eli fell back asleep but Adam and Jacob stayed awake in their beds.  We got up at 6:30 and the boys woke Eli.  They loved seeing all the presents and got their stockings down to open.  In their stocking was candy, gum, matchbox cars, star wars notebook and stickers, mini slinky's,  playdoh, and rulers.  After stockings we made coffees and Jared got some banana bread in the oven. My coffee mug met Jacob's head and spilled coffee on him.  Jacob changed his shirt and then the boys started passing out presents. We took turns opening gifts.  The boys opened knitted lambs that I had knit for them,  Calvin and Hobbes books,  Nerf clips and darts,  and legos sets.  Jared got some m&m's,  two more pair of Levi jeans, a niddy noddy, and an iTunes gift card (this was Jacob's idea).  I got a short interchangeable knitting needle set, a row counter, a couple other things for knitting, and some starbursts.  The boys were super excited about all their gifts and it was fun watching them open.  I had made a bag for my knitting needles (just in case I got was was on my list - haha) so I organized that with my long and short sets and other knitting items.  The boys started building their legos sets and worked on them for hours.  Jacob finished his much quicker so Adam let him do some building on his set.  We had fun helping Eli build his Jokerland set.  This afternoon Jared headed to his friend house nearby to check on their chickens.  He got back and went to check on our bee hives.  Then he found out that we've lost the yellow hive (which was doing really good).  Such a bummer!  Jacob took a long bath so he could play with his new lego ship in the tub.  We ate around 3pm and my parents arrived around that time.  They stayed for a couple hours and we sure enjoyed our time with them.  Mom and I did some knitting with our new knitting needles. We also got to see Papa's new truck which is super nice!  The boys played with their nerf gun or legos set until this evening.  Then we got out the cots to have a sleep out in the living room.  We made popcorn and watched I Love Lucy.