Christmas

We had Christmas here 3 days in a row and had a great time!  It was a bit nutty by the end, but we had fun :) 
 
Christmas Eve we celebrated with Uncle Andy, Aunt Emily, Grandma Dorothy and Papa Mike (Mat, Marbree, and cousin P were not able to come in town, but we did get to Skype with them while we opened gifts). We had a delicious meal and yummy goodies, the boys got to play outside a bit, we played Wii for awhile, and of course opened gifts :)  The boys got puzzles and books and craft stuff...hard to know/remember what all they got, since it was such a flurry of paper! 

Skyping with cousin P :) 

The boys with new pjs and one of their furry "cousins", Hallie (Andy and Emily's dog). 

Christmas morning Mike and Dorothy were over, and we opened stocking gifts before we headed off to church (our church had no Christmas Eve service, only Christmas morning).  We got home and opened up the rest of the gifts and had 2 delicious breakfast casseroles.  Z's big gift from us was a scooter that makes sparks, and the little boys big gifts were My First Leappads...one was a hand-me-down from Z, but no one knew ;)  The boys also got puzzles (and more puzzles!), games, books, craft stuff, sleeping bags, nerf guns, flash cards (the littles love them)...we already have so much stuff it was hard to need more.  We played the rest of the afternoon (while I tried not to freak out about all of the stuff ALL OVER the house). 

I made the boys a memory game with pictures of themselves.  They love games, they love cards, they love pictures of themselves.  You can't go wrong ;)

ARRRRR!!!! Merry Christmas, mateys! (A dollar spot buy leftover from Halloween!)

We made the boys haul all the presents in from under the tree in the living room out to the family room where there was more room. 

 Z was pretty pumped about the scooter. 

 What a mess! 

Monday we went to celebrate with Papa Dan, Grandma Dena, Aunt Maggie, and Aunt Emily (Jenny, Greg, and cousin A weren't able to come in town).  More delicious food, more awesome gifts, more playing with new stuff.  Papa Dan got "the boys" 2 marshmallow shooter guns...but I think he enjoyed them more than they did!  We also got a few more amazing handmade puzzles from Aunt Maggie...she is so gifted! 

Tuesday morning Mike and Dorothy took all the boys for 36 hours (merry Christmas to us!).  We dug our house back out, organized the basement, got a few picture projects done, and got our calendars finished and ordered.  And ate out every meal ;)  Notice the theme with eating?  Will be starting a diet again in the next week! 

We had a wonderful holiday and are beyond blessed!