Christmas was magical!
Christmas was full of surprise!
Christmas was white!
Christmas dinner was tasty!
Christmas Eve Pajamas before I left for work. Notice the clever wrapping of Joey's and Jon's. Joey said his was like a ship in a bottle and was not sure how to get them out at first.
Christmas morning- I went first with Lily, Joey was next, and Jon and Arabella decided waiting was not in the plan and came down together about 30 secs after Joey.
Peter did an awesome job of catching expressions. Joey was obviously excited about his BB gun. If you look at the right top and middle pictures you will see Jon looking at his bike and his expression- not too thrilled. He gets really anxious when he rides a bike- he can do it but he panics and tends to run into things like mailboxes. Santa is so smart though because he knew it is life skill Jon has to learn and that it might be more bearable on a better sized bike that has skulls on it. The skulls did make Jon at least think it looked cool.
It did not take much for Lily to figure out that open presents was fun and she helped others with their gifts since she was so good at it. She also found her cutie tangerine and wanted it immediately. Jon loved his dinosaur legos. Joey was grateful for some new church clothes.
Lily opened some clothes and immediately started tugging at her pajamas to get them off so she could put the new clothes on- that is why she is dressed in the Christmas morning pictures. She also screamed at the packaging her dolls were in. She pulled at the doll and the packaging and was so frustrated that we could not get them out faster. The dolls were the most securely packaged items we opened that morning.
Sharkzords, baracuda blades, new ties, and a new kitchen= happiness.
Once Lily figured out how to get the fridge open and saw there were shelves her immediate reaction was to climb. Peter did help her get turned around for the final picture but she did the rest by herself. Crazy girl!
Then came the snow! Of course the kids played in it and wished there was more so they could make a snowman but alas, we live in Texas and the 1/2-1 inch we got was wonderful and an unexpected Christmas Miracle.
We had our dear friends the Ostermiller's over for a french Christmas dinner. We cooked a goose and it was yummy! I would say almost like a cross between a dark turkey meat and roast beef. Also on the menu: 5 different cheeses, roast potato salad, shrimp, ESCARGOT, salad, quiche and a buche de noel for dessert. There was a small incident with the crepe batter but we were all full and happy to try something new. They
joined us last year for a German Christmas dinner and we are thinking next year we may go South American or Harry Pottter (I have a Harry Potter Cookbook but this would just mean a British dinner). I lucked out and my snail was not too chewy and tasted quite good. All of the kids at least put it in their mouth and I believe they all swallowed at least part of it and some all of it.
I pray that all of you had an equally Merry Christmas!
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