A Webcam Christmas

This year was an interesting Christmas. It's always hard to be away from our families on Christmas, but it's even harder to travel across the country during storms, with a puppy that hates to fly, and a huge mob of people. So last year for Christmas we bought our families WebCams and have really had fun using them. So Jaron and I got up around 7:30am (yes, I managed to sleep on Christmas!!!) and start opening our presents. My family usually starts pretty early, when I'm home they let us get up at 6am, but since I wasn't home the rest of the kids had to wait until 7am...which is 10am our time. So we started the cam's up and got to spend Christmas with my family. Jaron's family tends to get a little later start. Our first Christmas married we did my family first and after we were done we drove the 2 min. to his house and had to wake...no practically pull...everyone out of bed! So it helped with the webcam because by the time they were ready to go we were almost done with my parents. After that Craig called from Paraguay and we talked to him. Anyway...by the time we were done with everything on the Webcam and phone, it was 4pm! We were busy almost all day long...but it was so much fun to be able to "spend" Christmas with everyone this year. Here are a few pictures...

This is Hilarie giving us a hug...look close and you can see us on the computer screen.

Bianca REALLY got into Christmas this year for some reason, she thought every present was for her and would get all excited and run around when we picked a new one to open. It was seriously so cute! This present actually was for her from my parents.

This is my new purse...I LOVE IT!

Hilarie, Andrew & Aubrie gave us such a fun gift! It was a date night box and Jaron is reading the instructions here and we were both laughing quite a bit. We still haven't done this date night, but I'm sure we will make a blog post about it when we do!

Here is one last picture of Jaron and I...I think this was a present from Aunt Sue.

We also celebrated Christmas with the Malstrom's and had a lot of fun. Here is a picture of the boys opening their presents...they were Phillies hats like Jaron's. It was a great Christmas, thanks everyone!