Aunt Cori and Uncle Paul came home for 4 days! I really did get spoiled seeing my sister so much during the spring and summer, and I was so glad they got to come home. EVERY year ALL of my life we get together with my mom's side of the family for Christmas Eve. It was so great to have Cori and Paul (for the first time) there with us this year.
Another thing I do every Christmas Eve is get the kids new Christmas jammies, but this year I decided to TRY and make them. I picked out some super cute blue flannel with snowmen for the pants. First I cut Gabriel's pants out (I really did it!). I was super excited because I have never been good at cutting patterns out (they are never straight). Next on to Mia's pants, after what seemed to be another successful pattern cut out I took a closer look and found out, I CUT TWO right legs. :( I went back to JoAnn's for almost a month with no luck looking for more of the flannel. It is a good thing I have an Awesome mom (who by the way made both my sister's and my own wedding dresses). I took my two right legs and the rest of the flannel to her house and Mia got her jammies. By that time i just let Grandma sew the rest of the stuff. They turned out just how I wanted.
As always Christmas was a whirlwind of a day. We woke up and found out Santa not only thought of the kids but brought the whole family a Wii! Wow Santa, I am not sure the chalk board that we got Mia and the chair for Gabriel can quite measure up to that. Next year you might wanna tone it down a little. Oh and, Gabriel was so cute looking in his stocking!
As always Christmas was a whirlwind of a day. We woke up and found out Santa not only thought of the kids but brought the whole family a Wii! Wow Santa, I am not sure the chalk board that we got Mia and the chair for Gabriel can quite measure up to that. Next year you might wanna tone it down a little. Oh and, Gabriel was so cute looking in his stocking!
Next it was off to Grandma Kathy's for Christmas breakfast, she makes eggs benedict every year (yum). Mike and I even got to take a nap after breakfast.
On the way to my Dad's house for Christmas we stopped at Grandma Chloe's to take Mia so she could spend the day with her dad. We stayed for a little to watch the kids open their gifts and headed out. We met up with Cori at my Dad's house and spent some good down time making bouncy balls (a gift my brothers got) and watching movies.
The next plan was to go back to Ron & Chloe's house to hang out the rest of the evening but by the time we left my dad's house it was already past Gabe's bedtime and Mike was also worn-out. I dropped the boys off and went to Cook Rd on my own. Ron made the kids catapults and got them A LOT of ammo (ping pong balls & squishy soft balls) so of course we had to have a full out catapult launch in the living room! At around 9ish everyone headed home after a long day of good food and great family fun. Everyone but me :) I stayed until 11:00 playing canasta with just Ron & Chloe. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful holiday.
5 comments:
Love the PJs! And Gabriel was REALLY cute looking in his stocking. I love that face!!!
Hopefully, I'll get to stop by Monday or Tuesday next week. I've got some pictures for you.
And thanks for the phone call (and the message on Facebook that I didn't get until after)
In the picture with Gabe and Mike's dad, that's the same nativity that my mom has had forever! How crazy!
And Gabriel's face in that one cracks me up too. Like, "I can't believe you got this for me!"
Great job on the PJ's!! I loved the pic of Gabe looking in his stocking! And you guys will love the Wii! What games do u have for it yet? We just got Monster Truck Jam for Lukas this year and he loves it!
i cant Believe santa left us a Wii. Thank you for the scooter and the white and chalk board.
Cute pics! I was a WONDERFUL Christmas--Mia and Gabriel make it all the more special. And I LOVE my blog book. I took it with us to CT and can't wait to show it to the rest of the family.
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