Christmas Day

Ben was awake at 5 o'clock this morning. We had told him last night that he could only get out of bed once it was light outside as Santa may not have finished bringing presents until then. Unfortunately he sat up in bed, saw his nice full stocking and when I said he had to go back to sleep he informed me that it didn't matter now as Santa had already been!! Honestly sometimes he is just too smart for his own good!!

Still he popped in and out of our bed, back to his own bed, played with his toys and lasted out opening his stocking until Eilidh woke up at about 7 o'clock, mind you we were absolutely shattered by that point!

They managed to get down for breakfast and then opened a few presents before going off to the Christmas service at church. They took presents to show at church, Ben proudly took his knitted snowman and Rudolph and Eilidh took some russian dolls and a bead set. Then home for christmas dinner and more presents. The kids had loads of lovely presents and spent all day opening them in stages! They seemed to love everything and we even managed to squeeze in some time doing some of the puzzles and crafty bits they got as well. All in all a really nice quiet(ish!) day and now I just have to find places to put them all.

Here are some piccies of all the fun and one of Eilidh's new pony(!) which thankfully she loves! And of course Dave didn't want to miss out on all the fun!

We hope you all had a good day too!!