Christmas -2014-North Carolina

The kids had quite the raging, reunion, slumber party on Christmas Eve.  They even accidentally slept in until 7:10am on Christmas day!

(Cue sleepy bed-heads, stumbling downstairs with excitement.)

Tia Korah was almost as excited as the kids were and accompanied them down the stairs, in the dark, feeling the Christmas spirit all around.

In the video below, the children realize that there are 3 suspiciously placed presents, in special wrapping paper, that were not there the night before.  Hmmm...

...Sneaky Santa!

 (Notice how, even when sleep deprived, Tiago manages to summon the crazy-face for pictures.)

 

 Once all of the adults made their way downstairs, the kids started in on the stockings.  Let the Disney foreshadowing begin!

The boys loved their new Star Wars themed hoodies!

Tiago shows us his pirate medallion...

 ...and enthusiastically waves his new pirate Cutlass.

As if Christmas with family isn't exciting enough, Mateo announced to his cousin, "We're going to Disney" as Tiago unwrapped his Disney fast-pass wristband.  Because this was completely foreign and beyond Tiago's comprehension, it took a few seconds for him to absorb the news.  (He was happy  to simply have a new wristband.) But, when he finally made the connection between his new wristband, and the news, he had himself a nice little celebration dance, uttering, "Yeah-yeah-yeah."

To further the celebratory mood, the kids put on a nice Karaoke performance, while breakfast was being prepared. After breakfast, the table became Toy Assembly Station.  We put together dolphin mosaics, pirate ships and Star Wars Legos...

After the toys were assembled and ready to play with, we took a moment to get dressed up and have a nice Christmas dinner. Say, "Familia!"

!FELIZ NAVIDAD!