Christmas Morning at the Martin's!
I love it when the tree is surrounded by presents.
The annual Christmas Morning stair pictures!
This time Justine joined us. He actually spent the night at Ga-Ga & Pa's so he could be there early. Pa drove him over and they were outside our house at 6:50am and then they had to wait until we woke up at 7am. I bought all of us matching jammies from Old Navy. Michael had to tell Owen to go change into his matching jammies...it's not really his thing.
Of course right after the stair picture he went back into his room and changed into his normal lounging clothes. Silly guy!
Owen and I sat on one of the love seats together.
Justine and Ella sat on the one across from us. Ella got the biggest gift this year....from Owen!
Jack sat on the floor.
Michael got a whole couch to himself.
Zeke was on the floor right next to me.
Every year I have the kids pick out their own wrapping paper at The Dollar Tree. Zeke usually chooses something fun like this Minecraft paper.
We always pass out all the presents and then we start opening them up. You would have thought that all those big presents under the tree were for the kids, but you'd be wrong. Michael got me a lot of gifts this year!
When I went to go take a picture of Owen will all his presents that when we noticed that he was missing one. Ella was buying a gift for Owen this year and we completely forgot about his gift being stored up on top of the refrigerator in the garage. So Ella and I went out into the garage and quickly wrapped it up. That is now officially the latest we've ever finished wrapping Christmas presents!
We always go youngest to oldest for opening gifts. Zeke opened his gifts from Jack. Jack got him light up basketball.
He also got him this big Garfield stuffed animal.
Zeke bought Jack the 30th Anniversary Edition of Buzz Lightyear.
It was right after this that I remembered instead of taking pictures while we were opening gifts I was just going to have the kids set up all their gifts after the fact that way I could just be present while they were opening them.
On top of the gifts that Zeke got from Jack he also got the following from us...
- Lego Cars
- NIV Application Bible
- 2 Garfield Books (One was delayed)
- 2 T-shirts
Owen got the following from us...
- D&D Suitcase
- 1 T-shirt
- 1 sweater
- 1 card game
- 1 board game
- Wallet
He also opened a gift from a couple at church that was a book of Dad Jokes since Owen's always telling corny jokes. He also has one of the family gifts that he opened which is Who's More Likely To....
Ella got him a comforter and sheets set.
Jackson got the following from us....
- Cooling Memory Foam for his mattress
- Wool lined Jean Jacket
- T-Shirt
- Hoodie that turns into a bag
- 2 Mission Impossible Movies
He also opened one of the family gifts I got...7 Wonders. That game turned out to be the best gift...we love it!
From us Justine got...
- 2 pairs of sweatpants
- A blanket with pictures of him and Ella on it that says...The Snuggle Is Real!
- NIV Application Bible
- Phone case
- Waterproof Watch
- Green Sweatshirt
- 2026 Wall Calendar
From Ella he got....
- Socks & Underwear
- 2 T-shirts
- Pajamas
The big gift that Owen got Ella was her new guitar. It came with the cutest mini amp. He also got her a set of fake eyelashes.
From us Ella got...
- 2 Sweatshirts
- Phone Case
- A blanket with pictures of her and Justine on it that says...The Snuggle Is Real!
- Ear Buds
From Justine she got a pair of Uggs...which ended up being too small and not as comfortable as she thought they'd be. After returning those they both spent a good bit of time finding jammies on Amazon so he bought 4 pairs of matching jammies for them.
I got SPOILED!
Michael got me...
- A ski chalet for my Christmas Village
- An Instapot
- Cookbook for the Instapot
- 2 sets of Rubbermaid Brilliance Storage Containers
- A Wife Tumbler
- Huge bag of Mike & Ike Sours
The kids got me....
- 2 different spoon rests
- Mama Bear Slippers
- Set of 4 different tongs
- Ghirardelli Salted Caramel Chocolates
- Root The Board Game
I also had another family game that we got which was called Our Family Is So Weird.
Michael put some of his stuff away before I could get a picture. From me he got...
- 3 Untuck-it shirts
- 3 or 4 pairs of pants
- Electrical Plyers
- Snake Camera
From the kids he got...
- Golf Balls
- Starbucks Coffee Drinks
- Candy
- Putter
Another wonderful Christmas morning with my best friend! Can't believe this was our 27th Christmas together.
And even with getting all those gifts we still all ended up on electronics!
The funny thing was Ga-Ga & Pa are now only 2 minutes from our house, but we ended being the last ones there. In fact Pa had to call us and see if we were on our way. I guess everyone else was in a hurry to get on with the rest of the day.
And just because Charlie is the cutest Christmas Kitty ever!
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