Saturday, January 3, 2009

more vacation... Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2009: We did some clean up at home, packed an overnight bag and packed Christmas presents into the car. Spencer and Carter played with a couple of friends, we had lunch, and then we loaded up in the car, off to Grandma and Grandpa's house again! We had a nice evening and then the boys had a sleep over in the rec room with Andrew and Brendan (Miana slept in the pack and play in the room with Dave and I).


Thursday, Dec. 25, Christmas Day: The kids woke up about 7am, we waited down in the basement until about 7:15 for Danielle to get there and then we let the kids come up to see what Santa had brought. It's funny to watch the different reactions of the different ages... Spencer was most excited to hurry up the stairs, Carter and Andrew understood what was going on, but were not quite as excited as Spencer, Brendan knew he was supposed to be excited, but didn't quite know why, and Miana and Hallie didn't much care. Miana didn't want to look at her stocking, she just wanted to play with other people's stuff. After Santa stuff, we opened gifts and then had breakfast. The rest of the day was spent playing with toys, playing games, cooking, eating, and eating and playing some more. It was a nice day.

Santa came
and brought bikes for the boys and a new head band and doll set for Miana
Spencer's favorite gift was a Webkinz dog from Aunt Christina and Uncle Donald...

3 comments:

Paige said...

Looks like a fun Christmas! I love the kids' stockings, very cute. Who does the 4th one on the couch belong to? Is that one of Donald and Christina's kids, you or Dave's, or is it for the unborn? I love their matching pajamas, by the way!

ctarbet said...

The 4th stocking is a huge one that is for both Dave and I... we have used it the last 4 years or so, with last year not getting stockings (we sent Santa a letter and told him not to worry about stuff for Dave and I). But it is getting hard to share and although I don't think Dave and I will have stockings much longer, I did go to Walmart after Christmas this year and buy 2 stockings on sale. The kids stockings are from Great Grandma and Grandpa Young (Christmas' years past) and the PJs are from them from this year... we opened them on Christmas Eve so the kids could wear them on Christmas morning! Thanks Great Grandma and Grandpa!!

The Petersons said...

Looks like you had a lot of fun with family... I wonder if I will still be around to be a great grandma???