Christmas, Family, Fun

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas, I know that we sure did. It seems that in our household Christmas is a week long celebration. It began on Saturda, Dec. 18 when the boys received an early presents from Santa...a trampoline with an enclosure. Santa actually come over Saturday afternoon and set it all up for them..I guess it was too big to fit into the sleigh. It was too cold that nighSunday, Dec. 19...we had Christmas as my dad's house in Carlinville...we then celebrate Christmas with Chris' family on Christmas Eve day. His whole immediate family came and we had great food, lots of social time and tons of presents! The morning of Christmas Eve the boys got up and we had already put out all the presents for his family...they were so excited to see all the presents and went around and asked who each present was for. Once everyone arrived and we had lunch, we went to open presents and all the kids were sitting in front of the tree waiting patiently. Within minutes, it turned into a mad house of present and gift wrap...I don't even remember what everyone got. There were about 15 people opening presents and it got pretty crazy for those 25 minutes or so that it took to open all the presents. The boys loved their gifts and were so excited...
We stayed home Christmas Eve..the boys went to bed at a decent hour..they were very excited for Santa to come..so it took a whle to get them calmed down. Christmas morning the boys actually slept in a bit. It gave us time to get showers and dressed before they woke up. They woke up about 8 and we went downstairs and saw that Santa had eaten the cookies and the reindeer had eaten most of their food...but they made a bit of a mess.
We opened presents and then loaded up and went to my mom's for Christmas breakfast. Presents were opened there and the boys got to play a little with their presents before breakfast. We then headed home to rest before leaving again for my aunt's house for dinner. At my aunt's house, the boys really loved my cousin's 10 month old baby. They just made over him like crazy! They wanted to hold him and thought he was the funniest thing...
So, that was our christmas week. We had a great time and the boys had so much fun with all their cousins and toys!
We are very fortunate to have such great family and such a warm and loving relationship with each one of them...