Quite a Christmas Day!

Christmas Day was quite the day, indeed!   The weather, for this part of the country, was extremely odd; it rained the entire day.  Much of the day was a heavy rain and, in town, streets were flooding!  I'm not certain how much rain we actually got (I took the rain gauge down after the last freezing rain), but the local newspaper noted 1.12".

And, at some point and time during the day, Santa was going to come!  I think I was more excited than anyone else!

The boys got up and played with their new toys and devices.

Connor was still fixated with the virtual reality glasses.  He found a zombie game that was rather intriguing, albeit a tad glitchy.

Ramsey puttered around, playing with new Star Wars toys and a Minecraft pick axe that converts into a sword.  I was shocked that he knew he could "mine" (er - whack the floor) where the carpet is, but not on the hardwood!

 Santa, apparently behind schedule due to the inclement weather, still hadn't arrived, so we decided we needed some sugar cookies (I think this was actually Daddy's idea).   The boys and I started the project.  

Nana Karen came upstairs after a peaceful morning of sleeping in.

The cookie cutters (especially the candy cane) had a dual purpose according to Ramsey; they turned into guns!  Shocker.

At one point during the cutting of the cookies, Ramsey started to stick his foot in the rolled-out dough!  I guess I must have confused him with all of the previous salt dough projects.  Needless to say, the "foot cookies" didn't make it into the oven!

Once the cookies came out of the oven and were ready to ice, Ramsey was a good helper - TOO GOOD of a helper.  He wanted to take bites out of all of the cookies!  He got bites from two cookies (almost three) before I got him re-routed and back to helping with the sprinkles.

 Here's what a mouthful of cookie while saying "cheese" looks like:

While Ramsey and I were finishing the cookies, Connor held back on the couch and conceded that he was "much more suited for eating the cookies than frosting them".  Well put, young man.

Then, Daddy had to go to town to "run an errand".  Santa Claus showed up shortly thereafter!  FINALLY!!!  Yay!

 Ramsey had a strange intuition that "something was up".  At 45 seconds into the clip, he says "Take off!  Take off!  Da Da!".   Hmm.   Clever little boy?   How did he know?!?!   He didn't like Santa's suit, beard, etc.  Perhaps we'll have to make sure Daddy is home when Santa comes next year and keep the spirit of Santa alive.

Daddy "came home" again.  Good thing too, as the rain was just starting to freeze and the wind was starting to whip ferociously.   Ice Storm, here we come.

Santa had brought Ramsey more Star Wars action figures, a Star Wars sticker book, and a Star Wars book with short stories.  Connor got a flash drive in the shape of a thumb (get it, "thumb drive"?! ha!), some toothpaste, caramels, and a boatload of gum.  Mommy got her favorite perfume. Daddy got a tack light flashlight and deodorant.  I guess we were all pretty good this year!

Merry Christmas!