the rest of christmas day

we spent the entire day in our pajamas and ate breakfast foods for every meal. (we never did a christmas dinner growing up because big pop worked on christmas.  we always had a huge breakfast together so breakfast equals christmas to me.)  we had cinnamon rolls and 'pop-tarts' for breakfast, omelets and hash browns for lunch and chocolate chip pancakes for dinner with jesus' birthday cake for dessert.

mason's dream camera required an sd card - which we had overlooked and will cost more than the camera - so i let him borrow mine so he could take some pictures. but he took all videos.  they are all still because he thought he was taking pictures. but this one is cute because you can see how he is trying to smile and wait for the camera to take a picture.

and they were arranging toys all over for their pictures too, but we just got videos.

i asked to give it a try and discovered the changed setting and showed him how it worked.  here are some pictures from his camera.

maddux thinks it is really funny to keep you from getting the picture you want.  so while he wore the mustaches for a bit, he did not want to have his picture taken - which he thinks is hysterical.

i discovered that the boys really don't have anywhere specific to keep their 'treasures' in their room (we will be working to fix this in the near future) and this is how maddux arranged his gifts at the foot of his bed.

we made some breakfast/snack cake and topped it with chocolate frosting to make it more birthday-y.  the idea was that we would eat it for breakfast but we never got to it until after dinner.  the kids picked a blue, glittery balloon candle for the cake and we sang "happy birthday" before they blew it out. the kids were the only ones to eat any because matt and i were in sweetness overload after chocolate chip pancakes for dinner!

and then we all got comfy for our first ever "family movie night" with our entire family! i was pretty surprised that manning picked a spot laying on the floor with the kids instead of with matt and i on the couch.  we watched "planes" that the kids had gotten for christmas. oddly enough, madelyn was the one who enjoyed it the most.  the boys might have just been too sugared up.

it was a pretty perfect christmas in my book.  love.