Christmas 2012

On Christmas morning we woke up, ran downstairs and discovered the fun things that Santa left!  Berkeley asked Santa for crutches (probably the only 7 year old to EVER ask Santa for crutches) which she was thrilled to discover.  Her friend Emma broke her leg a couple of months ago and ever since then Berkeley has wanted to "break her leg so she can have crutches just like Emma."  I told her NOT to break her leg, I would buy her crutches if she WOULDN'T break her leg, but she ended up asked Santa for them so I didn't need to get them!  Both kids asked Santa for booster seats for the car, and Aunt Laura and Uncle Chris ended up getting those for them which brought big smiles.  I know, I have strange kids who ask for really bizarre things...booster seats and crutches...for Christmas :)  The biggest present was from us...we broke down and bought a Wii.  We saved it for last and pretended all the presents were done and then a bit later "discovered a forgotten present" and they just about came out of their skin!

Santa actually visited Papa & Grandma Potts' house.  Oliver spotted him coming up the walk and Finley was excited to see him outside, but once he came inside she did not leave the safety of Grandma's & mom's lap until he was gone.  It was a really fun surprise...even Malacai got into it.  As much as a 14 year old can get into it, anyway :)

Cristmas Eve 2012

We kind of did 2 Christmas Eve's this year.  We did a "mini" one a week before Christmas at our house just for something different and then we did the "official" one at Chris & Laura's house like we always do.  The kids had a great time and the time went way to fast.  It was funny...about 2 weeks leading up to Christmas there was a commercial for Huffy bikes and one of the bikes on the commercial was the exact one that Berk got last year from Uncle Jer.  He couldn't wait to give them their brand new bikes so he gave them to Berk & Oliver about a week early and told them they were from Santa.  As Oliver watched the commercial, he asked me to rewind it a couple of times and commented  that "that was Berkeley's bike."  A few days later I overheard him say to Berk "Berkeley, Uncle cheated...that bike wasn't from Santa, it was from Huffy."  He was completely serious and I went into another room and had a good laugh over that one.  He is one smart little cookie.  He does not miss a thing.  They each wrote out about 3 lists for Santa because they kept thinking of things they forgot to ask for so after the final revision, we mailed them off.  They ended up getting responses from Santa in the mail which I thought was pretty cool.  They were so excited that Santa received their letters and wrote back.  Looks like  the USPS is finally improving their customer service.  How refreshing :)