Happy and Merry

by Sarah on December 28, 2008 at 06:08

Another Christmas has come and gone...almost!  We still have one get together tonight.  My poor little nephew Aiden was sick with the stomach flu on Christmas and the day after (when we were originally going to do our Christmas), so we postponed it until today.  So far, our holiday season has been great.  We went to my Dad's family gathering Christmas Eve, Travis's Granny's Christmas afternoon, and we opened our gifts at home that evening.  I worked for 4 1/2 hours on Christmas morning, so we stayed at Mom and Dad's the night before, and that was definitely a bad call!  Elliot was up half the night for some reason--could have been the Pack 'n Play or the fact that Travis and I were in the same room as he was, so I was lucky if I got 4 hours of sleep before heading off to work.  Maybe he was taking all of this Santa stuff seriously??  All's well that ends well though, everything else went very smoothly. 

I can't believe my eensy baby has had his first Christmas already!!  It absolutely, positively blows my mind!  Harry was definitely more involved in Christmas this year.  He and Travis spent some time on Christmas Eve tracking Santa on Norad, and periodically he would come running out to me saying "Christmas is coming!!".  He was really good about opening up his presents, but the process is sooooo slooooow.  Every gift he got he wanted to open and play with right then and there.  It was cute at first, but I didn't want to sit for 97 hours straight opening presents so we had to speed him along a bit.  However, things came to an absolute grinding halt after opening his very own Little Tikes bowling pin set.  After that, all present opening ceased and he was determined to play with that for the rest of the evening.  And the next day.  And the next day after that.  He loves them to say the least.  The day after Christmas brought the biggest gift though--an aquarium!!  We are now the proud owners of four two (yep, two have already kicked the bucket!) fish and Harry couldn't be happier!  They also have another big fan, Roxy the kitty cat.  She is having fun sitting on the table watching the fish...I can only hope she is not plotting some sort of murder against our only remaining fish friends.  Here were our favorite gifts this Christmas:  Travis and I got some gift cards to Dick's for our hopefully coming soon workout room, cash, Aldo shoes (Trav), and a Tiffany's necklace (me).  Harry's were definitely the bowling pins, fish tank, Little League Baseball game for Wii, GeoTrax Airport, and Elefun.  Elliot likes his new Leapfrog table, Sesame Street pop-up toy, and all the wrapping paper he can get his hands on.  We couldn't be any more blessed, I really don't think it's possible!

Enjoy a few pictures of our wonderful Christmas.  Of course, my memory card decided to be full on Christmas so I don't have a ton.   

 

Can't beat it--striking baby blues with the cutest shirt and sweater ever!  With Santa slippers thrown in as a bonus!!

A little too much holiday cheer perhaps??

Huh?  You want us to look at Mom??

 Watch out all of you pro bowlers out there!

 

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