Our Christmas began at 7:15 with both Addison and Alivia waking and seeing that Santa had indeed arrived and brought some presents! They ran downstairs before I could even get Asher up and tore open their stockings (note for self next year: make them wait UPstairs!). Inside their stockings, the girls got strawberry shortcake dolls, spongebob, coloring books, hello kitty socks and more! Asher got a dump truck, airplane and a spongebob square pants. Then came tearing up the gifts under the tree. Alivia tore open her presents, thanking Santa for each one, before moving on the the next present. Addison would open a gift, ask me to untangle it from all the wires inside the box (seriously, is that necessary?), and play with it a while before she was ready to open another present. Asher opened his presents when he was told to. He, too, wanted the toy out of the box and away from the wires, would play with it until someone told him to open another one. Alivia likes her new cash register (that she asked for in July!) and her fur real kitty best, Addison also liked her fur real cat and her new baby bunk beds, while Asher liked the almond M&Ms in my stocking, his dump truck and his tools best. What a fun morning!
Chris and I kept are Christmas low key. The move took too much out of us. Luckily, Mrs. Claus had done all of the shopping for everyone except Chris before we moved in October. Then, Mrs. Claus got tired. Chris' favorite gift was a whilly pop popcorn popper and supplies to make movie theatre popcorn! Mmmm! My favorite present, other than my M&Ms was a new sweater (that I bought myself!) and giftcards for some much needed shopping to make myself look a little better (seems to be the Holiday trend for me. I think I need to be a little higher maintenance and less Mommy looking).
Usually, we would be welcoming Grandma Bet, Grandpa Bill and Grandma Marci, but this year we are all snowed in. We have many drifts, some that are about 5 foot tall! Makes a huge difference when there are no trees or houses to block the snow! The fan on our patio blew down as well, blade by blade. Luckily, we thought it was ugly and looked odd out there anyway and had plans to take it down. The wind just made it easier. And, luckily, it did not blow threw the window! Grandma and Grandpa Graybill are stuck at their home, snowed in, without electricity in their 50 degree home! It does not look like they will be getting electricity anytime soon, either. We hope to sneak in a Christmas celebration by New Years! Until then, we will just snuggle in our snowed in home watching the blizzard outside while sipping cocoa!
Merry CHRISTmas!
2 comments:
Merry Christmas! Congrats on your house. So glad you got moved before Christmas.
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you too!
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