Christmas Day

We thought about going to Salt Lake City for Christmas but it didn't work out so, we decided to stay in Alamosa for Christmas Day. We will drive to Albuquerque tomorrow to celebrate my mom's birthday and do the Christmas thing at Julie's Gram's house with all of the cousins, etc.
We will then go to Amarillo, TX on Thursday to spend the weekend with Emily & Shelby (and do Christmas #3) before heading back home to Alamosa.

Jamie was really into Christmas and Santa this year and was SO excited to wake up and see that Santa had been to our house. Somehow, I was able to get him to slow down enough to pose for this family photo in front of our lit, but never decorated, Christmas tree before the mayhem began.


Julie (still in PJ's) looking at the scrapbook stickers from Jamie.


So many presents...so little time!


Bill examining his gift of "Colorado"
(a book of comparison photos of Colorado from 1897 and 1997).


Jamie scored big with new Thomas the Tank Engine toys.


Woo Hoo! "Weeder wam" was indeed "Rumor Weed".
Santa guessed right!
WHEW!


One of Jamie's favorite gifts was this Denver Broncos football uniform, complete with helmet. He couldn't wait to put it on and wore it to bed tonight. We'll see if he'll cooperate with clean clothes tomorrow. He also loves building things with Lego's and Jenga blocks, so we gave him this set of building blocks and he had fun building all sorts of different configurations.


Every year, the community of Alamosa sponsors a Christmas dinner so, instead of cooking a big meal, we went to the American Legion hall and enjoyed a nice turkey dinner with several other friends from Alamosa. Santa was there (he must have been exhausted after his big night!) and they had door prizes for the kids. Jamie won a Lite Brite!
(Thanks to Rick, who walked by and placed a winning sticker on Jamie's chair minutes before the drawing!)