We had such a lovely Christmas this year! I was a little down because we were supposed to be in Canada this year, but because of expense and stuff we decided to stick around (plus we thought we'd be seeing some family in January, but I guess not! :( anyone want to come for a visit to make me feel better? ;) ). So I wasn't feeling it too much, but as it got closer I had a conversation with myself and decided that I just needed to change my attitude so that we could have the happiest Christmas, and I did, and we did! I missed being with my family, of coarse, still do! but we had quite a nice holiday here!
It started Christmas Eve-Eve, which I don't have any pictures of because I forgot my camera, but Jeremy and I looked adorable in our matching shirts and I am sad I didn't document that! We had such a fun time with Jeremy's Patterson family though and the kids were in heaven playing together all night.
Christmas Eve we got to put up the last thing on the advent calendar! The kids were SOOO excited! They have been excitedly putting these up every day!
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That day we did our usual Christmas at Grandma's with cinnamon rolls and breakfast foods and stories and presents from Grandma. The kids had fun and we spent the whole afternoon at the park playing with cousins in the nice 70 degree weather in our t-shirts!
When we got home we sort of carried on some of the Canada family traditions of getting Chinese food for dinner (we got Panda while my parents got Bill's... not the same, but as close as we could get!) and we opened jammies, played with Grandma's presents, read the scripture story, and bed! Well bed except for Mason who couldn't sleep forever!
This was Santa's set up before the kids arrived!
Anyway, we had a lovely Christmas and were able to see all of the family, and the kids have been in heaven since with cousins and toys and I am hoping it doesn't run out for the next week at least! We have loved having Jeremy home for a lot of the holiday week, and the kids are loving all the extra wrestling time! Thanks to my husband's thoughtful gift we've been able to do a lot more relaxing too with a nice clean house! I have been struck many times with how lucky I am in the past week, and month really. I have been blessed! Also Owen may or may not have made a Christmas announcement... I will have to try and remember!
Merry Christmas!!
