The new playset!

Around Thanksgiving, my parents told me what they wanted to get us for Christmas. a week later a semi-truck delivered 5 boxes weighing over 1000 pounds. The kiddos asked what those boxes in the garage were, and I told them they were just some of dad's projects. They were satisfied with that answer. Christmas Eve came and I disappeared with the kids for the ENTIRE day. As soon as Camie woke up, my mom and I woke up the rest of the kids and left for breakfast at Denney's. Evan, my dad, Troy, my brother Eric, and a good friend in the ward and neighborhood, all were in the backyard assembling the play set. We then met my friend, Jana and her three kids and traveled to the zoo. The zoo was surprisingly not crowded at all. We stayed at the zoo for about 5 hours. We came back to Jana's house. She watched the kids while my mom and I quickly finished our Christmas dinner shopping. All the stores closed at 6pm! At dark (around 6pm) Evan called with the green light to come home. We came home and the kids did not suspect anything. We had the blinds shut and I had put my Christmas cards on the back door so they couldn't see out. We had a great Christmas Eve and put the kiddos to bed. They woke up at 5:30am for Santa and never suspected a thing, until I asked Camie to open the blinds because it was finally getting light outside. I love Camie's reaction in the video.