The Johnson Family Christmas

We had our family Christmas celebration on Thursday night. We usually pick out an evening several days before we leave for our Tennessee Christmas to have a special family dinner and open presents. This year, some good friends from Baton Rouge, the Tuckers, stopped by for dinner on their way to Nashville. It was so good to see some familiar Baton Rouge faces!

After they left, we let the children open their stockings and one present. After we got into it, we decided to go ahead and open them all. We were up a little late, but it was lots of fun! The next night, we had our Christmas supper, which consisted of steak, shrimp and stir fry, along with hot dogs and French Fries (requested by some little people!). Santa snuck by and left some presents on our door step since he knew we would not be there at Christmas time.

The children each have different present opening personalities. Isaac opens a present, glances at it, and then wants to move on to the next one. He will go back and be excited about them and study them when all of the presents are open. Anna Grace, on the other hand, opened the snack at the top of her stocking, and sat there munching and watching everyone else scurry around. She took her presents much more slowly. Bailey and Olivia were somewhere in between the two extremes.

Some favorite presents:

Isaac: Darth Vador Transformer, Leapster game, legos, Bionicle

Bailey: Leapster and game, baby doll and accesories, Island Princess movie

Olivia: doll house village, bath tub baby doll

Anna Grace: Busy Bible, Mickey Mouse phone (The $2.00 after thought present from the Walmart check-out, which turned out to be her favorite present), baby doll, wind up clock

Mark: Tivo, Three Stooges pajama pants

Kim: Scrapbook program, perfume, candle

Family Gifts: Scooby Doo Season 1 & 2, Andy Griffith Season 1, popcorn popper