This leads to a most interesting picture as the early risers desperately want to know what Santa brought, but they stand around staring because nobody is allowed to touch anything until everyone is up...
Malia is a bundle of joy as she opens presents...
Especially when she gets the thing she wanted most - her very own art kit...
Kekoa insisted we start a fire so he could stay warm next to the fireplace.
Of course, starting a fire in our house means flipping a switch on the wall to turn on the gas. He liked it anyway...
And what more can a guy ask for than Star Wars lego stuff...
Bret Jr. wanted clothes for Christmas.
Seriously, he's 13 and he wants clothes.
So we bought him clothes. Look at how excited he is...
His Christmas spirit was overflowing...
The excitement was just unbearable...
His Christmas list asked for lots of clothes from Aeropostale, and that's a lot of what he got...
His older brother David, on the other hand, had some very unusual things on his list...
David has some pretty great faces when he opens Christmas presents...
You'd think he'd be an actor with all these faces...
I guess I'm too old to understand the joke, but he really wanted this shirt and he got it...
Alyssa is home from the East Coast for Christmas, and she has some good faces of her own...
I'm not exactly sure what her opinion is of this particular gift...
But when it comes to opening gifts, nobody does it quite like Nalani...
We take turn opening presents, and Nalani makes everyone wait while shakes every gift, sizes it up - all while she has the most unusual of expressions on her face...
I'm not exactly sure what she thinks she's going to hear...
Pondering which one to open next...
Sizing up another present...
And her overjoyed excitement when she opens the wrapper and finds a white box...
That's Nalani for you.
One of the Christmas presents for the whole family are tickets to American Folklore Theatre's beloved Guys on Ice...
They play is about a couple of guys who go ice fishing. One of their deep insights into life is that if hell is hot, the heaven must be really cold. And if it's cold in heaven, then there must be ice fishing.
As for me, my kids bought me this terrific book...
It's all about the 1990s dynasty of the Dallas Cowboys, which most football experts - including broadcaster great Pat Summerall - consider the greatest dynasty ever. It was only the foolishness between Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson that kept them from winning 4 or 5 Super Bowls in a row instead of just the 3 in 4 years that they won.
What a great Christmas present!
Happy Holidays!
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