Christmas Day

After an easy two hour drive to my dad’s house, the kids were more excited about opening some more presents.  Erin helped everyone open their presents. And Will had fun playing with their new toys.  Once they found the Goldfish crackers in their stockings, nothing else mattered.  We had some brunch and then hung out for a while before heading to my Aunt Kathy and Uncle Ron’s house for our annual Christmas Day dinner. 

 

 

 

 

As always, we enjoyed our time visiting with our family.  Aunt Kathy cooked another delicious dinner too.  The only problem was that I forgot to bring the kids highchair seats. 

 

They were sitting by the backdoor, but we went out the front door. Whoops! I’ve only forgotten them one other time since Christmas.  Erin and Will had fun playing with all of their big cousins.

  Erin loved the fact that the bigger cousin’s had cell phones.  I walked into the back room and Kylee (3^rd grade), Erin and Will were all laying on the bed playing with phones.  It was a funny sight to see.  We hope to see everyone this summer and not have to wait a whole year to get together again.

Christmas Morning

Santa had made a stop at our house and we were sure that Will and Erin would be excited to see their new toys.  But, we were we wrong.  We had to wake Will and Erin up around 7:00 so they would have time to open their presents before heading to my dad’s house.  They wanted nothing to do with being woken up early and opening presents. 

 

 

 

Will sat on my lap the whole time and didn’t care about the new roller coaster toy or presents under the tree.  He just wanted his blankie and mama (which I was okay with).  Daddy was able to coax Erin off of my lap and onto her new roller coaster.  I don’t think that either child opened a present on their own.  Mark opened a few for them and we ended up leaving the rest until we got home from my dad’s house.  Santa didn’t leave many presents because he knew that Will and Erin would get spoiled by all of their family members.  He looks forward to next year when the kids will be a year older and hopefully more excited (and awake) to open their presents.

 

Christmas Eve

We always spend Christmas Eve with my mom and sister and this year is no different.  The kids were great during 4:00 mass and then we headed to my mom’s house for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner.  Will and Erin had fun opening all of their presents.  Aunt Krysten had fun helping the kids open their presents.  Of course, they had fun playing with all of the wrapping paper and boxes too.  After the fun of church, dinner and presents, we headed home so the kids could go to sleep before Santa came. 

 
 
 

 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making Christmas Cookies

O Christmas Tree

I bought a Groupon for a you cut Christmas tree farm near our house. It was a beautiful Saturday morning so we loaded up the kids and went shopping. It didn't take us long to find the perfect tree for our house. We've had a fake tree for about 6 years and last year we had a 3 foot tree sitting on the table in the corner of our living room (because the kids were crawling and getting into everything and there wasn't room foe a tree). But, now that we have a big living room we wanted a big tree. Which came with a big mess when the needles started falling off. Oh well, the tree looked nice and we all had fun hunting for the perfect tree.