Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We certainly did!

We went up to the hubby's parents' yesterday to exchange gifts with them. We had a nice time, kids not too many gifts, and we ate too much. We got home about 7 last night. After we got home, we made cookies for Santa and the kiddos went to bed. One of their new aunts sent each of them a gift bag that included reindeer food, so they left food for the reindeer along with milk and cookies. My mom and her husband, and my sister, her husband and my niece were coming for Christmas today, so I got as much done last night as I could, which wasn't as much as I wanted. But we got some of the food prepared and rearranged some for this morning, and then headed on off to bed.

The kids didn't get us up as early this morning as we expected, which was a pleasant surprise. So we got up and came downstairs to get ready for them to open their gifts. Santa brought them some awesome gifts this year. J got a Razor electric-powered dirtbike, and A got a Razor electric powered European-style scooter. His is blue, and hers is pink (big surprise for the princess). They went nuts waiting for us to get the rest of lunch prepared and ready to go in the oven before they finally got to get out and try out their new toys. They zipped around on our street for a little while. I had no doubt J would take to the dirtbike like a fish in water, but I was impressed with the baby girl. She has no fear...she was running up and down the street with it, and doing u-turns with no issues at all. That's my girl!!

A on her scooter

J on his dirtbike

While the kids were outside riding their bikes, my mom and her husband got here, as did my sis and her family. At that point, I had everything ready for dinner, it just all had to go in the oven. Once I got everything ready, we all sat down for dinner and ate too much yet again. Everyone enjoyed the food, and after dinner we came in to exchange presents.

Yet again, the kids got too much, but they absolutely LOVED everything they got. I think the hubby and I succeeded in pleasing everybody with the gifts we gave them, and that always makes me feel good.

So tonight I'm sitting here trying to unwind, the boy child is playing his new PlayStation2 game, the girl child is working on the latch hook kit she got for Christmas, and the hubby is checking out one of his gifts.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!