Christmas has come and gone...

....and yet I am just posting pictures! :) I'm sure no one is too surprised!

Anyway, we had a wonderful Christmas. It was SO good to be in Utah with our families and to just relax and have fun! And have fun we did!

Here are pictures from Christmas Day:

We spent Christmas Morning over at Grandma and Grandpa Guymon's house, which was lots of fun. Here are the kids waiting patiently with Grandma and cousin Cole to go into the living room.

Merry Christmas to Bryan!! Santa Claus brought him a Wii Fit

(Which his wife thinks is fabulously fun and she probably uses it more than he does - thanks for sharing, Love! Although I have to say...you should see this man Hula Hoop!!)
Our kids were so into Christmas this year, it was great! Joshua was super excited as he went through his stocking. "Oh, wow! A ......." he'd say every time he pulled out something new! So cute. He even got really excited over his new socks!


And here is Grace with her stroller, which did come with a baby but apparently she's MIA. Santa Claus picked out this perfect doll that even looked like Grace, but who needs a doll when you can just push an empty stroller?

Joshua is showing Grandpa what Santa brought him - a tent set complete with backpack, sleeping bag, flashlight and water bottle! He has had a lot of fun with this one, and even slept in it a couple of nights. I was really excited too because I thought this gift might make it so I could reclaim my kitchen chairs from their new use as walls for blanket forts, but guess who still made a blanket fort with kitchen chairs Friday? Yeah, it was me. :)

Grace's favorite part, aside from the wrapping paper, of course, was the

candy cane in her stocking!

This is the Henke Family Christmas Morning Extravaganza at my Grandparents house. You can imagine the mound of presents for the 17 of us that were there! It is always a good time!

Here are all the "kids"

Ahhh, sweet happiness! Joshua got the one single thing he wanted - a Woody doll. Or as he calls it, a "Toy Woody." As you are all aware, he is quite obsessed with Buzz Lightyear. Well of course, Buzz is not complete without Woody, so ever since I found him a small Buzz Lightyear action figure in Amarillo this summer he has wanted a "toy Woody" to go with it. I had searched high and low, but with no luck, so I passed the idea onto my mom. She found this super cool Woody, complete with a working pull string! Then my sneaky little sisters went and bought him the matching Buzz Lightyear since the "toy Woody" was about three times the size of the action figure Buzz he already had. And so here you have it, a four-year-old boy in heaven:

Then we went to visit my Larsen grandparents where we had more holiday happiness (pictures were too fuzzy) and headed back over to the Guymon's for some more Christmast fun! It was fun to have most everyone together. We had a yummy dinner, opened presents and played some Wii. Grandma and Grandpa even got in on the action! You should see Grandma run with the Wii - on her way to be an Olympic champion, for sure!

Joshua and his cousins Cole and Anthony all got matching computers for Chirstmas from Grandma and Grandpa. Already on the road to becoming more techo savvy than their parents......

I have to explain the goofy picture coming up of next. What I really, really , REALLY wanted for Christmas was a new camera. I knew I wasn't going to get one because it was out of our budget this Christmas and I new it was more than our parents generally spend on us for Christmas. But I was still kinda hoping, you know? So I opened my box....

Could it be!?!?

YAY!! A new camera! And yes, I even did a "I got a new camera dance"!

How did it happen? My amazing husband sacrificed his Christmas gift from his parents (He got "The Tale of Beedle the Bard" instead of something "big" like the rest of us) so I could have a camera. Now that is a Christmas gift to remember! I've decided I must be the most blessed person ever - I don't know how I got someone who takes such good care of me, and he even seems to like it! I think he was as excited as I was!

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Okay, I can't resist:

One more goofy picture:

Check out my dad's hat!

It's to keep him warm when he rides his scooter to work.
Only you, dad, can pull that one off!

Hope y'all had a Wonderful Christmas!