Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to all! It is hard for me to believe that over a week ago was our Christmas celebrations and two days ago was our New Years celebration. Time has really flown. The kids, I think, had a great time at all of our celebrations. We had Christmas Eve mass where the kids got to bring up two pieces of the manger scene: This year it was Mary and Joseph. Although it wasn't baby Jesus, and I knew both of them wanted to bring it up, I thought it best that neither of them should do it. So they did their part and we had fun with Derek and Kyrsten, Kyrsten's family, Bubba, Papa, Brian and our family. In order to save seats for the entire group, Trevor and I walked (because the weather was SO nice) to church an hour before it started. While walking to church, Trevor says something to the effect of, "Mom, you look really fancy. In fact, if someone saw us walking down the street right now, they would think you looked really fancy." He then started talking about wanting to get me a smoothie which I wasn't sure where it was coming from, but I really enjoyed our short walk to church.
We headed out to Grandma's house for our yummy crab and prime rib dinner with the exchanging of gifts. It always is a great way to wish each other a very Merry Christmas! The kids made out with some fun Star Wars and artsy toys as well as some clothes. As always we had to rush home in order to be back before Santa came to our house that evening.
Also as usual, Trevor was up around 7 and stayed in our bed with us until we allowed him to wake Gwen up at 7:30. Gwen got her big Cinderella doll she asked Santa for, and Trevor got his video games he wanted. Trevor got a bunch more diary type books and a few board games to play as well. Before long, it was off to Bubba and Papa's house to have the next Christmas and my birthday celebration. We brought over a few favorite things from Christmas and were off for an overnight. It makes more sense to not have to rush back home when it is easy to hang out there for the night. So we played a game of dominoes and left in the morning to do our fourth Christmas. After that, the kids and Russ with the rest of the family got to do their skating time. Gwen quickly tried to figure out how to skate on her own. She's not quite there yet, but she learned a lot in a short time.
The time between that evening when we were finally able to be at home to organize and clean until now seems to have passed in a blur. We did get out to see Chipwrecked at some point, as well as take the tree down and put away all Christmas decorations, so we really are ready. Now it is just about deciding what to play with or what to do next. We went out to the lake house for New Years but even that felt like it was two seconds rather than two days. I know I was really worried about how the kids were going to do this break, but it seems to have worked out well. Perhaps it was the change of toys and the want to play with someone else. I'll take it though. Now, if I could fast forward to March I'd be good. January can often be too cold and depressing for me. Only 62 days until our vacation, which doesn't sound too far away! Yay! Just a few more finalizing details that I can work on and we will be all set.
So bring on 2012! It's going to be a great year for us all, I have a feeling!
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