I got a little 6 year old girl in my face with a smile, proclaiming "Daddy, daddy get up, Santa Clause came!!!", and then I got to watch her open up the presents. That was the best present I got.
I also got to watch me wife open up a set of 6 individually wrapped boxes. All placed inside of each other. Only at the end to find a set of diamond earrings. She never had diamonds before, except for the one on her finger.
The second best was the Band of Brothers box set of DVD's.
I still like the first better, even though I have wanted those DVD's for a looong time.
No lights this year, but I am very particular about those, and usually buy them myself.
One of the most important ones I got was knowing that even after all the rush, crowds of people, stampedes, bad attitudes, comercialism of Christmas, and mad dashes for goods, I can still "hear the bell"