(Early) Christmas Day 2005

We awoke to seven full stockings hanging above the fireplace.

Here's how Dad's Christmas of 2005 will be remembered:

Mom: The girls are already up.
Dad: (mumbling and still asleep) So.
Mom: Go downstairs and tell them to go back to bed.
Dad: (still comatose) Huh?
Mom: It's four o'clock in the morning!
Dad: Uh, OK.

So dad shuffled downstairs to find Emily and Lauren scouting out the loot around the tree. No, they hadn't opened anything. But they did have a rundown of how many presents everyone had, as well as ideas on what was inside each one.