Christmas

We had several Christmas celebrations this year. The first was on Sunday the 23rd with a trip to Pine Island. We were at Grandma and Grandpa's place with Katrine and Tony, Wanda and Sean, Grandma Bea and Grandpa Norm as well. It was a ton of fun! The kids slowly got into the spirit by ripping the paper, but wanted to play for extended periods of time with each item they received, so they didn't want to move on to the next item. But overall, they had a blast! The drive home wasn't as much fun as we had gotten a few inches of new snow during the day and it was blowing and drifting quite a bit. But, with taking our time, we eventually made it back home for #2.

We hosted Christmas Eve at our house with Oma, Uncle and Uncle Chris over. The kids loved running around the house and Cailin kept looking at the tree with all the 'loot' under it and wanting to open presents. She played "santa" this year by delivering presents to everyone throughout the night.

Then of course Santa came Christmas Eve at our house. So when the kids got up, Cailin was very curious to see what this meant. She had been somewhat scared of Santa before, so this was interesting now. When she got into the living room she said "mom, Santa really did come AND he left presents!" She was so excited. So we spent most of the rest of the day opening presents and stockings and then Mike was putting toys together and then playing with them. Mike said his favorite toy was one of Andrew's car track presents. Funny!

We are truly blessed and had a wonderful Christmas, healthy and happy!