My grandfather arrived on Dec. 21st and from that moment until now, there has been very little time to get online. I am way behind on everything. Here are a few pics from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We had our traditional meal of antipasto and gnocchi.
As you can see by the fact that the kids are half in jammies at dinner, we did not go to church on Christmas Eve. Since Luke decided not to be a sheep for the third year in a row in the pageant, we decided to skip The Christmas Eve craziness on go on Christmas morning instead. It was a good choice. The 11:30am mass was sparsely attended and no one cared how antsy my kids were.
Christmas morning we actually got up before the kids! It was a Christmas miracle.
Oh, yeah, take that beatches! Our elf left a note!!
Santa left this massive castle. Santa probably should have looked up the dimensions of the room before he brought it, but it does fit and the kids think it's totally awesome. It also folds totally flat and can lean against the wall for storage. There are two towers and a big horse on the inside. New swords, shields and a couple of medieval costumes were also left. Luke got dressed as a knight right away.
More new castles from Grandma Carole and Happy Nappers from Bo. The boys also got Spongebob Legos from Poppy and Nan and the much begged for Nintendo DSs from us. Justin got a toy grill from Santa, train tracks, duplos and lots of Sesame Street figures.
For Christmas dinner, we had a "real" turkey from the Sponseller farm. It was delicious. For some reason, the cooking seemed much more laid back than at Thanksgiving even though we had basically the same things. I think it was because we ate Christmas dinner at 6pm instead of 2pm and the turkey was about 8lbs smaller than our Thanksgiving bird.
Oh yeah, and on Christmas night, Luke lost his second tooth. We thought it might come out Christmas Eve, but it held on by a thread for another 24 hours. As expected, the Tooth Fairy left $1, but Grandpa Bo supplemented with an extra dollar.
3 comments:
That was so directed at me with the elf note wasn't it? haha!
I know you might fall off your chair right now but would you believe I (I the hater of the church parking lot) went to Christmas Eve mass! Can you believe it, I did and it was crazy. Next year we do Christmas Day!
~Cheryl
Wowzers that's quite a tent! Glad you are able to catch up blogging.
never could stand all the christmas eve inscence!! Brave woman Cheryl!! Love the toy glut, cool for the kids!!
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