MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I'm soooooooo tired and don't have it in me to truly blog, but for those out there who might not yet know what was in that giant box...

Here is Katie's reaction when we asked if they'd like to open the big box today instead of waiting until tomorrow.


Rippin' it up!
Hhmmm... now how to get into it???

Pocket knives, of course!

Oh, wait--it's light. Just lift it!

It's a Box-o-Grandparents!!!!!!

Oh, happy day!

What could be better than THAT?!

Shock, laughter, tears... it was GREAT.

We managed to keep it a secret somehow and it was so, so, so great. It was sort of a last minute thing. After it was determined about a week and a half ago that we wouldn't be able to go back east for Christmas Mom & Dad started trying to figure out if it would be possible for them to come out west instead. And it worked out! God is so good!!! :-)

Some super sweet lady at a furniture store found the box for us (she sounded so excited about our plan--almost giddy! Ha!) and we wrapped it up and had it sitting in the house for a few days. When Mom & Dad arrived today we made sure the kids were occupied elsewhere so we could sneak them into the box, then call the kids out and tell them it was time to open it up. :-) How fun is that!!! They were pretty confused for a while though, wondering how Grandma and Granddad had stayed in that box all this time... Ha! We finally explained it to them. Anyway, it was great fun to have a GIANT box wrapped up like a present and to unwrap the Grandparents and to see the shock turn into excitement and then utter glee when the kids started registering all of it. What great memories. We are all just so, so, so, so, so happy to have Mom & Dad with us for Christmas!!! Life is just so very, very grand. I'm sure I'll blog lots more about it... but probably not while they're here. You know how I am. I already told Mom that tomorrow night we're not touching the computers--we're playing games!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY!!!