Just a few presents..

Oh yeah, just a few! Ha! Ha! Well, every year Bill and I discuss that our kids have so much and that our family is so blessed, and yet every year they all get so much for Christmas presents. Now let me say, this year I think we did better than ever at not ending up with just silly stuff and each one received something that they really, really wanted and would actually use. But we still always look at everything and ask ourselves, do we really need all of this? So if any of you have some cool things that you do each year to help your kids with this idea, I would love to hear them. We do have the kids go through their stuff every year and we do give a lot of the nicely used things to goodwill or garage sale them.
Anyhow, these are a couple of things that the munchkins got.
Alex got a walker/rider from Grandma Kris and Grandpa Frank. We really didn't think that he would be able to do this very well since he has just started walking around the coffee table and walking up and down the side of the couch. But surprisingly he did very well, only one fall. And he loved it. Bill couldn't get a picture of his face because he kept turning, but he was grinning from ear to ear.

Addie waited all Christmas for this present: a watch. At our family Christmas, and the Trunnell Christmas she didn't get it, and when she was asked if she got everything she wanted, she would say, well, I really want a watch. Aunt Sara came through and gave her a cool watch that opens up, although today she hasn't worn it because she doesn't like it on her arm. :) Kinda funny!

Amber and Ashley received several neat things, but they also had a shared present for the two of them. Aunt Sara bought them Design World. This is a game that you hook up to your TV and you design your own world (imagine that!). They were both thrilled and Aunt Sara even thought about the batteries, so we were able to have it up and running that night. So far we haven't heard any disagreements about whose turn it is, or who got to do this last time.