Christmas 2013

We had a nice, quiet Christmas this year.  We kep the gifts to a minimum and just enjoyed what we had and our time together.  Christmas week was the first time that I can remember Reid having an entire week off and us not having a trip planned.  It was nice to just have family time.  We were all a bit bummed when he had to go back to work this week.

We had a traditional ham Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve.  And then we had our traditional Chinese take-out on Christmas day.  It's nice to not have to cook that day.  I will admit that I'm getting nervous about that tradition as only one Chinese take-out place is open Christmas day and the last two years they have been completely empty when I have gone in.  Last year we had ticket #1 (on the receipt) and this year we were only ticket #5.  Not good for those of us who want our Chinese on Christmas.

Anyway, it was a good day.  Bree never really got the concept of opening presents, but that didn't matter.  She loved having her family around her and playing all day.  And she even gave me a Christmas present the night before by sleeping prett well and sleeping in until nearly 7:30 that morning.  Yay for sleep!

Christmas Eve Dinner

Bree with her stocking

The paper makes this fun crinkly noise.....

playing in a mess of paper

Finn's most desired present--a Jake and the Neverland Pirates Spy Glass

working on his take-apart plane with Daddy

Bree got an Elefun ball popper.......Finn loves it soooo much

This pictures makes me laugh!  This face was for something that Finn was doing.

Kai's most desired present--Mine for Gems.  He did the actual mining a few days after Christmas and had a blast with his dad doing it.  He also got a Morphibian and a Lego Star Wars set.  He has finished his Legos (he went off on his own with Reid to do it on Christmas day) and worn out the batteries on the morphibian already.

almost done mining--this took a couple of hours

the gems he got from the kit

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!