Christmas!

Yes, Christmas was a few weeks ago and at last I am posting about it.  :)

For Christmas Eve we went to Steve and Jane's house.  It was a full house with Daniel's whole family there along with Grandma and Grandpa Sperry and Chris' fiance Lisandra and her family.  With everyone, I believe the total was 26 but I am not sure.  There were definitely a lot of people, but it was fun.  We got to meet Lisandra's family and they were all really nice.  Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures that night.

Christmas morning was fun.  Tamara, Chris and Lisandra along with several of Lisandra's family came that morning.  I didn't know they were coming and so didn't have any little gifts for her family and I felt a little bad about that, especially because her mother gave us a bunch of yummy treats from Brazil.  Wish I had thought of doing something like that for them!  Alas I didn't, maybe some day I will be more thoughtful.

The kids had fun opening presents.  Matthew was so excited for me to open the present he got for me.  Although I already knew what it was because he had told me about 30 times the day before that it was HIS garbage truck.  I opened the garbage truck second after the Zhu Zhu pet castle that Emma got for me.  Matthew hardly wanted to open any presents after the Garbage truck was opened, he was so excited about it.  Emma was excited, but a little more quiet this year.  She was excited to get her Zhu Zhu pet stroller though.  Bella was a little zoned the whole time and didn't really know what was going on, but we all had a good time.

After we opened presents, Daniel showed Lisandra's family our pride and joy, the skateboard ramp of course!  :)  Then we went out to my parents house.  We had our traditional Christmas breakfast which is much better now that we have the food warmers from the rental center so everyone can eat at the same time instead of in shifts.  At least the rental center is good for something.  :)  Then  the kids opened presents from grandma and grandpa and from each other.  Then we did our adult gift exchange.  It was a pretty standard day, kids running around screaming happily and the adults lounging on the couches visiting. 

Later that afternoon we watched my present from Daniel.  If you looked at the last post, it as my 12th day of Christmas from my true love, "Twelve Months of Bliss."  It was a picture video of this last year.  It was fun to see all of the different pictures and somehow things like that always make me slightly melancholy.  I think it is because I realize that the kids are growing up and will not be my babies forever.   There is always a sweetness about it too though, to see the fun times we have and the precious little spirits we are blessed with.  I really liked the video.

All in all it was great!