The fun has arrived: Christmas '08

Christmas was a great day for us. Wes was again on call, but luckily no emergent things came up and he was able to deal with all the work situations over the phone from home. However, we did not know he would be home all day, and since I didn't want to have to do Christmas Morning alone with the kids, we did it quick-we had opened all presents and eaten the traditional Johnson family breakfast by like 8 am. The good news is that we got to spend all day playing. The 3 oldest kids got scooters and tried them out indoors as the outdoors is covered in ice. They got many other nice things, and we had a great Christmas! Of course, it was not all about the presents. We learned a lot this year about what it is like to have a dad/spouse that is a doctor. Other people needed him at the hospital, and we were willing to share him, but we sure appreciated the time we did get to spend with him! Here are some Christmas day pictures:

Armour, Solace, and Ender coming out to see if Santa made it (I should mentions something here. Armour is terrified of Santa, and was really concerned with him coming into our home. However, he loves Mrs Claus. He kept saying he hoped Santa would send Mrs Claus to our house instead. When he woke up in the morning, he was looking to see if Mrs C had come, and guess what? She came WITH Santa to our house, and all the gifts came from Santa and Mrs C!!! He was SOOOO happy!)Dad and Kindle
Kindle opening a present. I should have just had a bunch of empty boxes wrapped up for her-she did not care about what was inside, but had a blast with the wrapping paper! She was the perfect age for her first Christmas-it was so fun to watch her and she loved it!

Armour opened his scooter

Solace opened her scooter

Ender thought he didn't get a scooter as the other 2 opened theirs first, and he broke down in tears followed by pure joy when he realized that the gift he was opening was in fact also a scooter. Here is the extreme joy...

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Look how much he loved his jeans!

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Wes reading the We Are Johnson's book from the kids.

Solace with the AMAZING quilt from Great Aunt Kaylene. It was actually a Birthday gift she made for Solace. She asked Solace what colors and things she liked a while back and made this based on Solace's answers. It has pinks, purples and a ballerina in the center and I do not think Solace could love it any more than she does! Thanks you Kaylene!

I am opening the calendar Solace made for me at school.

Kindle with some spoils-a new outfit and a new baby cabbage patch doll.

Cute, huh?!

Sisters

Brother bear...(the other brother was unwilling to participate in this photo shoot)

This is why he was unwilling to be in the shoot-he was "skating" around the house in his new undies and his shoes. Actually, he had been wearing his new Elmo slippers all day, but changed into his shoes right before I got the pictures of him. I wish I had gotten the slippers because that was actually what he wore like 90 percent of the day!

Dr Dad and his caffeine...ready to go in if needed...

Kindle in her new Pooh suit (thanks great aunts Kris and Angel)