Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year! It was so fun to have our first Christmas in our new home. On Christmas Eve, we had our traditional Uruguayan asado. We invited the Wessman's and Jaussi's to come celebrate with us and we had a great time. I didn't get any pictures of the dinner, but the food was delicious as always (thanks to chef Zeke) and the kids had so much fun together (in total there were 6 adults and 10 kids). After our friends left, we let the boys open one gift. We had them open a gift from us because we got them all new pajamas. It was also during this present opening time that Lucas had his "a-ha" moment that Santa isn't real. Zeke took him into the kitchen for a few minutes so he could talk to him without Matias hearing. :)

Julie took a picture of our family before they left

I love this picture of my 4 boys!

the stockings are hung and ready for Santa!!! (or Mom and Dad as Lucas now knows - haha)

Christmas morning we tried to wake up as early as possible so we could open presents before church. (We had just one hour of church but it started at 9am). Lucas woke up easy enough but we did end up having to wake Matias and Nicolas. It was very fun watching the boys open their gifts and seeing what "Santa" brought them. Lucas asked for walkie talkies, and Matias wanted a new Geo Trax engine (Eric and Aero specifically). Nicolas is too young to know what to ask for but since he's obsessed with Cars 2, we got him a Cars 2 book that came with 12 little characters from the movie. It was so fun to see how excited they were about everything. Later in the day Lucas told Zeke and I that it was his favorite Christmas ever. :) In the evening we went to a friend's house for dinner. All in all, even though Lucas was a little sick (it ended up being a bad cold which the rest of us got too), it was a wonderful first Christmas in St Louis!