Here are the kids all dressed up for church today.
This is our big boy Kyle, all ready for his first day as a Sunbeam. Sunbeams is the first year of Sunday School basically for our church. He gets to start meeting with kids his age, and with all the kids age 3 to 12. He was pretty excited. He fell asleep during singing time, but I got him back up for class and he went and says he had fun. We'll see how long it takes for him to start speaking to his teacher. My guess....3 months. 
We woke the kids up at 7 to open presents and had them sit on the steps while we waited for my parents to get here (it was about a minute). I love the delirious faces.
Grace was confused about what she should be doing with the presents. She never really got into the unwrapping.
Evan's new skateboard. His top two requests (of us) were a skateboard and science kit. Luckily we pulled through with both.
Evan has a Leapster but doesn't love to share, so Kyle got his own for Christmas, and his own game. He loves it. He also got a Trio BatCave which has been a hit.
We made the boys ask Santa for matching gifts in an attempt to avoid a repeat of last year. They asked for Nerf Guns and Santa pulled through with awesome ones. Even Daddy and Grandpa love them.
Grace with an awesome cheese face. She got the stroller from Santa, the doll from her brothers, and the outfit from Grandma and Grandpa. She is one very spoiled baby.
Brandon really wanted one of these when he was little I guess, so he convinced Evan that he and Grace should give it to Kyle. All 3 kids (and Brandon) have loved the marble race so I guess it was a good choice.
Evan trying out his skateboard Christmas afternoon. All of the neighborhood kids were out with their new stuff and came running over to see his skateboard. He felt very cool having the coveted gift. This was about all he did on it though.
I love how Kyle has his sprinkles all lined up. He was excited to use all 3, usually on each cookie.
This was the last set, and they were still very happy sprinkling. They seem very focused.
Enjoying the hard work.
Kyle decided this was the official gift to sit on. He got to go to part of primary (where all the kids 4-12 go) today for the first time to start trying it out. I can't believe he is old enough already.
Grace on one of the rare occasions where the bow is actually in her hair. This outfit was given to us with a hat, but she is our child and has a huge noggin, so the hat was nowhere close to fitting.
Attempting to get a picture of all 3 of them.
If we take Kyle's head off the last one and put it on this one, we might have a decent photo. We will try again next week.
Here is a look at our first tree in the new house. It has been very fun putting up our Christmas stuff and figuring out where it all fits, but we have realized in the process that what we don't have nearly as many decorations as we thought. 
Kyle decided he wanted to hang up stockings the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and we went along with it.
In our most exciting decorating news, we finally bought curtains for downstairs. We now have these in the family room, over the sliding glass door, and dining room (it is all one wall). They make that wall of the room look pretty well finished which is nice. Now to finish all of the other walls. At least we are making progress.
Here is a close up of the fabric. The circles are kind of green and gold.