We arrived at noon after a calm and easy drive. Aunt Liz, Uncle Larry, Larry, and Colton pulled in as we were unloading. Timing was perfect and the gathering started. Soon, Uncle Don, Alex, Tessa, Chloe, and Macy entered the fun and the chaos was kicked up a notch. We got out some oldy but goody toys and the kiddos dug in. 
The kids couldn't resist the shiny wrapping paper for much longer so we decided to let them open presents. Of course, the children received some very wonderful gifts and opened most of them upon tearing the wrapping off.
Amongst all the noise of the children Grandpa fell peacefully asleep while holding Zane. Precious.
Exploring the gifts continued but we all took a break to enjoy some delicious lasagna, then back to the new toys went the children.
We left around 5pm and all four children fell asleep shortly after starting the drive back, exhausted from a great day!
P.S.
As you can see from pictures Violette's left hand is bandaged up. She suffered a fairly good (as in bad) burn from the stove on Monday. She is doing well, but complains about the pain often enough to break my heart constantly. It is healing well, and hopefully for Christmas the bandage can be left off. She does make it look cute though, ranch smeared face and all!
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Poor Violette! But it sounds like the Roehrig family Christmas was a huge success! Olivia is very concerned about Violette's hand.
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