Christmas at Our House

Since we were going to Amarillo for Christmas, we decided to open our gifts to each other before we left, ask Santa to leave one gift in Amarillo and the rest at our house for when we got home.  We were just about to start opening our gifts and the boys grabbed one and tried to "peek" inside it.

Ryan gave Brock a Star Wars science lightsaber to learn about electronics.  As you can see, he was very happy!

We found these great Star Wars space ships at a garage sale.  They were really cute and still in the box.  Ryan has loved playing with them. 

Brock got a very cool Boba Fett helmet.  It is electronic as well and speaks like Boba Fett.

Steve got a new bike helmet and a new book, written by a friend of ours, Mike Lamke.

I got some new boots!!

Ryan and Brock made their godparents, grandparents and Great Aunt Harriett and Great Uncle Dick some handprint ornaments.

The rest of the pictures are from when we got home from Amarillo and Santa had come.  One of their gifts was an R2-D2.  It is the coolest thing!  You can talk to it and it will "talk" back to you and obey commands.  See the videos below to see it working.

Here are the boys trying to learn some of what R2 can do.

Here is more of what they learned.  It is a really cool toy.  It does so much more than this, too.  Good job, Santa!!!  (...and thank you craigslist!)

Ryan wanted these Buzz Lightyear wings so bad.  He kept telling me that he wanted to use his own money to buy them.  I kept telling him to wait and see if Santa brought them.  Good thing he waited....!

Ryan with his Buzz Lightyear costume and Brock with his Razor Scooter.