Christmas

We had a lovely Christmas. All the normal Christmas Eve happenings. With the addition of putting up the trampoline in 40 degrees, which with a wind, no sun, and being used to 60s-70s was FREEZING. Then I got on gmail video chat with my family and sang Christmas carols and listened to my dad's new song. Which is a tradition I would love to continue. It was so fun to sing with them! But have my kids in bed. =]






Kids tracking Santa's flight...

Setting up the trampoline


With the tramp and singing we didn't get to bed until after midnight, woke up at 4:24 to a fire truck zooming by. The boys were up about 20 minutes later, so not much sleep. Everyone was up a little after 6:30. Gifts were fun this year as we had the kids go one at a time and watch each other. Then we'd build/play with/eat whatever was opened before moving on.


The boys got a movie and tramp from us. We did a treasure hunt with the first clue wrapped up. The boys loved it!



They also got some fun gifts from grandparents (furry frenzy things that scoot around and make noise, Hannah got one too that she is afraid of. and lots of Legos). Between the trampoline and the Legos I've barely seen the boys for days. Seriously, they are either shut in their room so Hannah can't break everything or outside jumping.




Hannah got a baby doll and stroller. Plus I made matching pjs for her baby...I could hardly contain my excitement. She is happy as can be pushing that baby around all day and I am probably even happier watching her.









We did everything really simple this year with only two gifts each for the kids and for us. After receiving everything from our families it ended up being a perfect Christmas. The best gift for me was the branch Taylor chopped off one of our trees for me...if you look really closely at the first picture you can see it behind the treen leaning by the piano with a red bow on it. I'm going to carve a spoon out of it. As soon as I find a sharp enough knife.