So, they were excited! We decided to go out to eat that night so Santa would have plenty of time to come. Actually what we did was load the kids into the car and then Kris went back in the house and pulled everything out so that when we got home, Santa would have come.
This worked well. It is not the ideal way I'd like for our Christmases to be, but we made it work! I guess we will have to do this every other year--at least until the kids are too big for Santa! I guess you could say this will kind of be a new tradition for us.
By the way, the Elf on the Shelf was quite fun this year! I'm glad we did this! The kids loved looking for him every morning and it was a great way to remind them during the days before Christmas that O was watching and would tell Santa if they didn't behave. O was pretty good to them this year because if he'd have told the REAL truth, well I don't know what they would have gotten for Christmas!!! :) Something I really enjoyed about O was hearing Lincoln refer to him as the "Elt on the Shelt." His pronunciation of things are so cute sometimes!
I came in and took a quick picture of the Christmas loot before the kids destroyed everything. We had the video camera set up too to catch their reactions.
Here are the little munchkins running in to see what Santa brought them!
Huge smiles. The first thing Lincoln saw was his Woody doll. Since he had gotten Buzz earlier from Uncle Wes, he was very happy to see Woody. He pulled his string to make him talk and just giggled.
Lincoln goes on to the next thing, while Hannah still isn't sure what to look at first.
Finally she noticed her salon chair. This is the one thing that I knew she wanted for Christmas. Every time she would see the commercial advertising it, she'd run to tell me to come look and say "This is what I want for Christmas." How could Santa not get it for her?
Next, an Imaginext Dinosaur for Lincoln (which makes sounds and walks) and some little Disney princesses for Hannah.
Kind of at the last minute, Daddy, I mean Santa, decided Lincoln needed a real, nice cowboy hat. He loved it. 
Hannah found all the salon accessories to go with her chair.
All Cowboys need a gun and holster.
Hannah has really been enjoying her Leap Frog Tag Reading System. She got several books to go along with it.
Yeah for Barbie stuff!!!
Kris came up with the wonderful idea to start getting Lincoln a real tool every Christmas and add it to a toolbox. When he is like 18, he'll have a whole set of really nice tools. With a Daddy like his, he'll probably know how to use them by then! He had wanted to do this starting at Lincoln's first Christmas, but didn't. So he got him caught up with a couple of tools this year--a hammer and tape measure. I just love this. I thought it was very special!
For Christmas this year, I got a new set of stainless steel cookware. This was much needed as my other set, which was the black teflon stuff, was all scratched up and I was afraid to keep using it. Kris also was brave and picked me out some maternity shirts and pajamas. He did pretty good.
He got clothes from his favorite store Jos A Banks. He is obsessed with dress clothes! :)
Lincoln cracked us up when he went to get Buzz and started having Buzz and Woody talk to each other. Funny boy!
Just give this girl and pen and pad of paper and hair/beauty stuff and she is in heaven!!!
One of my favorite things to do is find stocking stuffers. I found these silly glasses at the Dollar Tree.
Christmas just keeps getting better and more fun with each passing year! I get very excited thinking about the new little one that will be a part of our Christmas next year, Lord willing!
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