Mazlow's Presents!
Santa hooked Mazzy up with a super cool wooden work bench, with a bunch of tools to use with it. Mazzy wasn't sure what to do with it until his brothers jumped in and showed him how it all worked. After that, he wouldn't put the cute little wooden tools down. 
Santa also brought Mazzy a couple of giant play dinosaurs that chomp their teeth and make dino noises, which all the boys have got a kick out of. 
With his shoe fetish, it's no surprise that one of Mazzy's favorite gifts was a new pair of shoes!
Mazlow also got excited about a Robinhood DVD and a Dora the explorer Memory Game.
Merry Christmas Mazlow!
posted by SandpointMOM @ Thursday, December 28, 2006
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Ryder's other favorite gifts included his remote control car, his snow jacket, Superman Returns and Veggie Tales DVDs, a DVD game, and a fingerpainting set.
The golden present was the PSP that Landin had wanted, and he was overjoyed! 
Melissa's favorite gifts were her Paul Frank PJ's and slippers, 
His gifts from Mom and the Boys were focused around a Rock Climbing theme and included a gift certificate for the materials to build a climbing wall in our barn, and all the climbing equipment he would need (rope, caribeaners, harness, shoes, chalk & bag, etc.). He also got some new fancy running shoes to keep his new running routine at the gym going smoothly.
He left presents for Melissa: 
He left presents for Landin: 
He left presents for Ryder: 
And He left presents for Mazlow: 
He even left presents for Potter & Einstein (The dogs) and Tinkerbell (The Cat)!
And last, they cleaned their entire room (since Santa had mentioned to them when they saw him on the lake that their room needed some work). All was set for a visit from Santa to the boys room...
When the kids woke-up they spent the first bit of Christmas morning enjoying the gifts in their room, while Brice and I got dressed. 
When you added all the sets up from the whole month, it made a lego city. It was a nice alturnative to candy advent calendars, since we're not big on too much sugar for them.
With our advent calendar completed, it was time to read some Christmas Books. Each of the kids picked-out one, and we sat in the big chair all together and read them aloud. 
After the fun Christmas books, the last thing to do to make the night complete was to read the Christmas Story together from the book Luke. We used Landin's bible this year, and cuddled-up once more to share the true story of Christmas. 
By the time we were finished with the Christmas Story, the kids were fading quickly, and didn't even put up a fight when we hauled them off to bed and tucked them in. Tomorrow was Christmas!
All of us got into the decorating spirit, even Brice!
I spent my decorating time working on a series of blue stars with each of our names on one:
The rest of the cookies came out lovely:
We sampled a few cookies too (of course!) while we played Christmas Mad libs (a true Filippini Christmas Eve Tradition). 
Cookies and Christmas Madlibs... that means Christmas was almost here!
By then, it was nearing the late afternoon, and we hadn't even started decorating our gingerbread cookies...
And even though we didn't get any lights put up outside; with all the snow it still looked quite festive!
It was begining to look a lot like Christmas...
Landin and his best friend Mitchell (you might recall they have the same birthday) are naturally competitive in ever area (sports, girls, and everything else) – so when the teacher read this play, she told Mitchell’s mom and I that Landin and Mitchell immediately came to mind. So Nicole and I spent one evening last week sewing two identical Santa cotumes for the boys. 
They looked adorable, and they nailed their lines. The play was quite good, and Landin’s teacher deserves a nice pat on the back for her creativity in putting together the play when every other class settled for a Christmas carol. We were really proud of Landin and his whole class.
and Landin and his buddy who played a clown.