Texas Christmas

After Thanksgiving on Friday we have our Texas Christmas with Ben’s family. It is a wild day filled with last minute shopping, wrapping gifts and kids filled with high anticipation of tearing into those carefully wrapped gifts the moment it touches their hands. Before we can get to all the excitement of gifts we have to find the perfect tree. Each year it becomes a major production with fifteen people voicing their opinion on the tree they think would be just right. Sadly you can’t make everyone happy. At last we find the “perfect” tree and take the family picture. Now with seven of the kids under four years old it becomes a challenge to make all the little faces look forward at the same time. Which in it self can be very comical, I don’t think it will happen anytime soon that all the kids will face the camera and hold still. Once we get the perfect tree we have to cut it down and bring it home, and decorate it before we open presents. But wait there’s more; we even have to eat dinner before all the mayhem can begin. So after much waiting and anticipation from the kids (read Morgan) we are finally read to get down to business, and this of course leads to a wild frenzy to see what everyone got for Christmas.