Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmastime has always been my favorite time of year! I love it's sounds, it's smells... and most of all it's feeling. Since Donnie was overseas last year, we decided we would stay home this year and just enjoy being together.
We spent the day playing games, watching movies and playing more games. I don't think we changed out of our jammies until well into the afternoon (Hahaha, yes Kaden put Kaleb's jammie bottoms on last night... and after we told him, he didn't think it was important to change them. So try not to laugh too hard!)... what a great Christmas!!
Kaden & Kaleb received this book from their primary.The boys definitely weren't spoiled like they were last Christmas, when we went up to Chicago to visit my family, but they still received some really great gifts from their grandparents. And Santa was SO kind to bring all three of them nerf rifles... apparently, he didn't converse with Mom first!! =)
Donnie and I were a bit stressed... we've been trying to locate a Wii for the last two weeks for their main gift, but had no luck. Thank goodness the boys didn't seem too upset to open MarioKart... with no system to play it on!!! Hopefully it will be back in stock soon!!
Gram sent Chicago Bears shirts... what can I say, we're all fans!!!
Because Sky loved his art class SO much last semester... Gram also sent Sky a professional acrylic paint set, complete with a wooden case, a tabletop easel and a canvas. I can wait to see what he creates!!
Grandma Kari sent the boys a tabletop air hockey game... what a HIT that was!!! They played with it throughout the entire day!!This evening we enjoyed a small dinner at home... complete with brown sugar baked ham, garlic mashed potatoes, fresh vegetables, homemade yeast rolls, sparkling juice, eggnog, apple crumb pie and, of course, homemade Georgian pecan pie!! Yummy!!!!
But the BEST part of the holiday, is remembering all of our wonderful family & friends!! We hope you all had a very blessed day!!!!! And we PROMISE... the cards are in the mail!! =)
