Christmas Morning

 First attempt to wake Noah at 9:15am

Second attempt was successful!

A Wooden Tran Set!

 Stocking from Santa

Everyone needs a toy fire extinguisher, right?

Christmas Eve

Santa came to visit.

The kids all got little goodie bags from Santa. Noah opened his and turned to Olivia with a pout because "I didn't want music stuff, I asked for a fuel truck!"

Each cousin got a chance to sit with Santa and put in last minute requests.

Jadon

Kendra

Savannah

Katie

Markus

Katherine

Noah (who repeated his request for a fuel truck)

Ellie

Victor didn't want to be photographed while he rested on the couch.

Playing with the decorations while waiting for present time.

A book!

Cookie Night

The Alm Family has a Christmas tradition of crazy Christmas cookies.

 Cutting out cookies with a silly looking Markus in the background.

 Look at that sweet boy.

 Ahhh!! He's shooting fireballs while waiting for the cookies to bake!

Kid cookie decorating time.

 Kids done decorating and enjoying having three iPads in the house at once.

Here are the cookies.

There are always some that are slightly (or completely) inappropriate, but this year's cookies led to some interesting adult conversations with the kids. Maybe the cookies need to be toned down next year.

 

 Noah just wanted a California cookie. Victor wrote Shark Gills on it because those are Noah's two favorite things to draw; California and shark gills.