The Aftermath

As you can see, the period of time between opening gifts and cleaning up the next day is rather chaotic! The kids play with the toys and open EVERYTHING! In this photo you can see some of the Chevron Cars, Capsters craft, Rescue Heroes, the movie Ant Bully etc. They barely touched their plates but that isn't too unusual, they get to that in the morning. Here Jackie is being shown most of the Chevron Cars. Jackie is Kaleigh's cousin, Carl's sisters daughter. She is great with the kids and was easy to buy for this year. She is into purses and music, so she got a gift card for ITunes. Her brothers received Best Buy gift cards because they want to buy a Playstation 3. Good luck guys! Our livingroom doesn't look like this anymore, we got everything put away. Every year we have the kids pick something they don't play with anymore and they put it away for next year to give to an Orphanage in Mexico. Our church makes gift boxes with new and used gifts and the young people take all the boxes of toys and clothes and some cookies down right before Christmas. The kids are so thankful and we get rid of good toys that the kids don't play with. This years choice for Kaleigh was her Barbies. She doesn't much play with them anymore and so she kept just a couple with some clothes and the rest, all 8 barbies and 2 Kens got put in separate baggies with clothes and accessories and they will go down next year to the Orphanage. A good way to clean out and make a child happy.