Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a merry Christmas! (if you celebrate it) Christmas eve night my family and I went to church and then went back to my house and had some appetizers and desserts with my grandparents.  My brother and I  decorated sugar cookies for Santa and made a small display that included many carrots, a few cookies, and a cup of milk. Later that night, it was very tough to go to sleep because I couldn't get my mind to stop thinking about opening presents early the next morning. I finally fell asleep at about 9:30,and then woke up at 3:00, again at 5:00, and again at 6:15. I kept checking the time on my I-pad because I thought the time was going by MUCH faster than it actually was. Once it was 6:15am, I had to basically force myself back to sleep because my parents told me that we weren't going open anything until 7:00am or later, so I had to keep that restriction in my head. Luckily I slept until 7:00, but to hear my brother's voice awaken me loudly whispering "Nuala, Nuala, Nuala, wake up its 7:00!" I was very happy and excited to hear that, and then we had that joyous moment of walking down the stairs and seeing mounds of presents.
 My brother and I first dug deep down into our stockings. Truly, my grandma made my stocking, and it has material that every year allows the stocking to stretch and get longer. (which is a GOOD thing because that just means I get more stuff) I got: LOTS of candy, a magic 8 ball, a travel size wet brush, a card game called "Anomia", fuzzy Life is Good cabin socks, scented magnetic bookmarks that have fruits on them, different flavored chapsticks, a Gear Beast running belt to hold small things while you run, and more Hershey Kisses!
Next, my family just KNEW it was time to open presents. We opened them mostly one at a time so everyone could see what you got. I recieved: a tabletop fooseball setup, a life-size Alex Morgan (USWNT soccer player)poster, Justin Bieber's new album "Purpose", the world's cutest dog (literally, he's famous!) named Boo soft stuffed animal, a navy blue sleeping bag, a waterproof lightup "Night Ball" soccer ball, a Garmin Vivofit, which does the same thing as a fitbit, a Fugi Dynamite purple bike, Timmy Failure Sanitized for your Protection (book), Drama (book),and #2 of The Babysitters Club book, but a newer graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier, a Memorex "Stand and Sing" Which is a thing that has a round bottom, and then has a pole that goes up to a place to put the microphone that below it has at thing that you can put any device on it so you can read lyrics to a song and then you sing, a plasma car, and I got a small New England Revolution poster, some clothes, a cajon (prononced CA-HOAN) which is a drum that you sit on, and lean forward and drum with you hands, I also got some dog slippers, and last but not least, I got a card that had money inside it.
                                               Hope you had an awesome Christmas!