Christmas Morning

We just finished off a nice Christmas morning with the family. It is nice to have Derek back and to spend time together as a family. As you can see our children love to be together and adore each other.


Morgan has created her own Christmas tradition. She has worn the exact same pajamas to bed Christmas Eve and then opening presents Christmas morning since first grade! Let's just say that each year it gets more 'interesting'. The toe socks were a gift this year.




We hit a great milestone on this Christmas. Derek and I desired and received the same gift! We each received the 'tech hoodie'. It has a zillion pockets and it is strictly for geeks so I guess Derek and I qualify for that.

Here is a great picture of the Thorhauer women. Shannan is wearing her necklace that Morgan gave her.

We were sure that Derek was going to ask for a pair of studio quality monitors (i.e. speakers) for Christmast. Much to our surprise and delight, he instead asked for studio quality headphones! Wooohooo! And there was much rejoicing! We are hopeful that Derek gets a lot of use out of these in his future JOB!!

John was decked out in Steelers gear this year. He got an awesome Steeler mug from Derek that will be nice to taunt people with at work. John is also holding a DVD set of all 5 of the Steelers Super Bowl victories. Nice. And to cap things off Morgan (with some help from Mom) made John and incredible comfortable, yet fashionable, pair of Steelers pajamas.

And to finish the morning off we enjoyed our traditional Christmas morning breakfast featuring mom's Monkey Bread. Yummmmm.


Here are a couple of short video clips from Christmas morn:



Morgan opening her ipod