Mason's Santa haul
The twins' Santa gifts (Seems a bit paltry
next to Mason's spread, but they didn't mind!)
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that Santa brought you just what you wanted! We had a very happy (and very busy) holiday here! We did Christmas in installments so we could celebrate with everyone. We started on Wednesday with Matt's dad, his brother, Jonathan, and Jonathan's roommate, Matt. We had pizza and presents, and that's a combo that can't be beat!
We had Christmas parts 2 and 3 on Christmas Eve. Part 2 was breakfast and presents at my parent's house, and part 3 was dinner and presents at Matt's mom's house. At this point, we had already racked up some major loot! Mason got video games from all his grandparents, I got a new steam mop, a fancy-pants breadmaker, and some other cool kitchen tools and such. Matt got clothes and a brand new vacuum cleaner. And no, people weren't trying to tell us that our house is dirty, these are things we asked for! So we went home Christmas Eve and mopped and vacuumed!! After we got Mason to bed, Matt and I spent a fun couple of hours playing all his new video games until it was time for Santa to come. And boy did Santa come! Mason got two more video games, plus a bunch of other toys. The twins favorite things were a shopping cart and a farm magnet set that talks and sings, and the humongous pop-up tent and tunnels set they got from my parents. It's been awfully nice having new stuff to entertain them! Matt's favorite present was his new vacuum. Mine was the CDs from my favorite tv show, Glee- I've been listening to them non-stop ever since!!!
We had Matt's mom, brother and his roommate over for breakfast Christmas morning (Christmas part 4) then we went to my aunt's house on Christmas day (Christmas part 5). It was really great to see every one, but we didn't stay too long because the twins were trying their best to get into things and go up the stairs and a host of other things they're not supposed to do. We were so busy trying to keep them corralled and out of trouble that we didn't get to spend nearly as much time with everyone as we would have liked. After we got home, Matt's mom, his aunt, Jonathan and his roommate came over for dessert (Christmas part 6). We were wiped out after such a busy day.
But the fun and celebration didn't end Christmas day. Matt and I always have some of our friends from high school who are now fabulous New Yorkers come to visit the day after Christmas. They're in town to celebrate the holidays with their families and we grab any opportunity we can get to see them. So they came over for dinner Saturday night (Christmas part 7) and we had a big time catching up.
Today was finally the day that we didn't have to go anywhere, but of course, there's never a day that we don't have to do anything! Today's agenda called for getting the Christmas tree out. It was REALLY crunchy, not to mention it takes up a huge amount of space. So we got that sucker out first thing this morning. I tell you what, we could not have done it without our wonderful Mason. He entertained and played with his brothers for well over an hour while Matt and I got the tree and the giant tree cage down. He was a champ! So as a reward, he got McDonalds for lunch and we all took a trip to the park this afternoon. And tonight we are doing nothing but sitting on our butts for some well deserved rest!
But even though we've had 7 Christmas celebrations, we're not 100% done. Matt's parents are giving us new cabinet doors for Christmas, so we're going to do that over the next few weeks. We got granite counter tops a couple of weeks ago, so cabinets are next, then repainting, then we'll have a fabulous kitchen. It will be the gift that keeps on giving!
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