birthday boys
a quilt for c.j.
the party attendees
waiting for the show to start!
who has arrived???!
making sure the kids are all on the nice list
BELIEVER.
the kids were all stunned and amazed.
eli, thrilled at the combination of lego + sorry. too good to be true. pretty easy to please.
ida's crabby attitude, christmas 2010
the christmas morning puffy, smiley family picture. yes.this time of year is always so busy. a good kind of busy. a happy kind of busy.
birthdays and christmas and family parties seem to run one into another. this year we celebrated eli and c.j.'s birthday by a lasagna smack down at our house, some presents to open and tickets to Seussical the Musical. we had a great time. the play was fun and colourful, ida sat through the entire thing happy and quiet. GOOD FOR HER.
we were all able to get together last night for christmas eve at mom and dads. we ate, acted out the nativity, had a talent show/sing-a-long and then had a very special visitor drop by. a bonafide santa claus arrived and chatted with the kids for a while. the kids could not believe it. santa claus, here????! HE WAS DELIGHTFUL AND PERFECT.
this morning was christmas. it was an early start. so early, ida and c.j. are both napping right now, it's noon and i am feeling a bit heavy eyed myself. eli was easy to please this year with simple lego, a couple of books and a looney tunes dvd. ida was grumpy, scowled most of the time, didn't want to open any of her gifts and was more interested in elis things which caused some problems. i had a brain wave while i was eating the really dry coffee cake i made for breakfast. next year we will do christmas in shifts. if eli wants up early we can wake, open gifts, whoop it up with him then head back to bed until ida wakes a couple of hours later {naturally}. it just may be a more pleasant way of celebrating christmas until ida can deal with it. they are so far apart in age that the early rising is fun for eli but not for ida. MUST STRATEGIZE NOW FOR NEXT YEAR.
in a couple of hours we will head back out to mom and dads and have a nice christmas day meal. it's going to be awesome. i'm going to eat like there's no tomorrow and then start thinking about tomorrow and the next day and the next... 2011, you will be here before we know it. MUST BE PREPARED.
merry christmas.
5 comments:
I can't get enough of Ida's pirate squint.
Holden asked what time they could get up to open presents and we asked him what time he thought was appropriate. He said 8.
Ummmm, ok......
Party, party!! Looks like a lot of great celebrating.
Sounds like Ida and Brady had the same morning!! I called him our Nightmare of Christmas. His presents are still wrapped under the tree. We have it all on video to show him in a few years. Oh well. Merry Christmas. Miss you guys!!
Seriously, that face Ida makes is HILARIOUS! haha Maybe not for you guys, but I love it!
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Ida's wink kills me!!!!! She is too cute Jessica!
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