Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Fun

We enjoyed Christmas, although the pace of the past month has been more than a bit hectic - and that's an understatement.  It is nice to be able to slow down a bit now!  On Christmas Eve we decided on a home made potato soup before opening gifts together and attending a candle light service with my Grandmother at her church. On Christmas morning the kids checked out gifts from Santa, we ate apple dumplings, and then we spent Christmas afternoon/evening up at Grandma Karen and Grandpa Tim's house opening even more fun gifts, and eating delicious prime rib.  Multiple days of good food and fun, what more could we ask for?

We could ask for a Santa sighting, of course!  And we got one! On the way to the candle light service on Christmas Eve, while at a stop light, we spotted Santa in a convertible (with the top down, mind you, in 0 degree weather) with lots of gifts in the back. Pretty crazy. Too bad for Bentley that Santa cruised through the green before Bentley got a good Santa affirming sighting.  The adults in the car all saw Santa though, so we believe!

The Christmas photos:




The twins caught the unwrapping vision right away. In fact, they caught it a few hours before our official "start" and tried to rip into some gifts that did not belong to them - I guess they can't read labels yet?!!  It was just as well we didn't get all the presents under the tree until Christmas Eve, as they may not have survived a week or two of scrutiny from the toddlers. Fun times.

One of the great things about having siblings close in age to you?  Everyone gets their own gifts, but all of the gifts get to be shared.  The kids have been having fun enjoying all the new loot - I don't think we went crazy with the gifts, but they certainly received quite the selection of presents between us and all the relatives.  Lucky kids!

We were blessed to have such a fun filled Christmas, and I'm looking forward to more Christmas time memories with the kids in the coming years - while being thankful I have 11 months to get ready for the next one, that is!

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