Christmas came fast. I mean FAST. I tried to cram so much stuff into the couple days before Christmas because we had been gone. We went to see the lights at the Speedway on Friday. They were so cool! Brody and Mia loved them. There is like this huge path that you drive really slow through and it's covered with lights. We had a good time, it was a nice family Christmas activity. Then, on Saturday, Christmas Eve, we spent most of the day finishing last minute stuff around the house. My mom and I did some prep work for Christmas day lunch and Brody and I baked up a storm. Santa needed some cookies :) Christmas Eve night, we let the kids open one gift. My mom let us open one gift every Christmas Eve and I always loved that, so I thought it would be a good tradition to keep going with my kids. And of course they loved it too. Brody was so excited that we let he have a present before Santa came. I also, bought them Christmas jammie's to wear that night. Gotta having them matching! My parents stayed at our house that night and so did my sister so that we could all do Christmas morning together. Brody left chocolate milk and cookies for Santa then him and my sister, Kacie had a little tent slumber party in his room so they could wait for Santa together. Brody had so much fun!
So, remember that little "Santa present" snafu? Well, it kind cleared itself up. I was planning on trading gift with my mom so that the Santa presents that Brody found would be from her and her presents would be from him. But I was all guilt ridden because I didn't want to give him some random gift he didn't ask for {I know, I know, spoiled brat but I've been having guilt issues and that's a whole other post} Santa is suppose to bring the good gift, ya know, the ones he found in the closet! But anyway, when we were gone to USC, him and my mom were at the store together and she bought my cousin this Skylander game gift set. With like the game and the action figure and Brody was all about it. He kept asking why it wasn't for him and that he wanted to tell Santa that he changed his mind. He even kept hiding it around the house, thinking my mom would find it. Little ruggrat :) HA HA. So, I guess long story freaking loooong, my mom bought him Skylander and it was his Santa gift. Christmas morning rolls around and Don and me are sleeping in our room and Brody and Kacie in his room and I hear him run out and yell, "Skyyyylander" haha. I've never seen the kid so excited. And he has not stopped playing yet. He would play 24/7 if I let him. Brought so much joy to me. Even if he's probably about as spoiled as it gets ;) We spent most of the morning opening presents and eating breakfast, that was truly the gift for me this year, to be able to spend Christmas with my family, healthy!
Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning!
So, remember that little "Santa present" snafu? Well, it kind cleared itself up. I was planning on trading gift with my mom so that the Santa presents that Brody found would be from her and her presents would be from him. But I was all guilt ridden because I didn't want to give him some random gift he didn't ask for {I know, I know, spoiled brat but I've been having guilt issues and that's a whole other post} Santa is suppose to bring the good gift, ya know, the ones he found in the closet! But anyway, when we were gone to USC, him and my mom were at the store together and she bought my cousin this Skylander game gift set. With like the game and the action figure and Brody was all about it. He kept asking why it wasn't for him and that he wanted to tell Santa that he changed his mind. He even kept hiding it around the house, thinking my mom would find it. Little ruggrat :) HA HA. So, I guess long story freaking loooong, my mom bought him Skylander and it was his Santa gift. Christmas morning rolls around and Don and me are sleeping in our room and Brody and Kacie in his room and I hear him run out and yell, "Skyyyylander" haha. I've never seen the kid so excited. And he has not stopped playing yet. He would play 24/7 if I let him. Brought so much joy to me. Even if he's probably about as spoiled as it gets ;) We spent most of the morning opening presents and eating breakfast, that was truly the gift for me this year, to be able to spend Christmas with my family, healthy!
Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning!
Christmas afternoon we had all of our family over for lunch and gifts. I decided to host this year because I had no idea what Donnie would be feeling like so I thought that it would be better on him and I if we were at home and he could go back in the room if he needed to. Fortunately, he was great on Christmas! You never would have known what he had just went through! It was nice just to enjoy the time we had together. My mom and me cooked most of the stuff for lunch the day before so we just had to throw it in the oven on Christmas. We didn't want to have to do too much on Christmas morning. We wanted to enjoy it and not spend it slaving away in the kitchen. Everything turned out great and we really had an amazing day. I'm so grateful for all the wonderful family we have in our lives. We've had a very difficult year and all of them make use feel truly blessed! Merry Christmas to you :)
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