Wow. I
love Christmas. However, it has been I-N-S-A-N-E! On the night of the 23rd we were up until 12:30am and the 24th we were up until 1:30am. Future reference...have all sewing projects finished and presents wrapped
before Christmas Eve.
Anyway.
On Christmas Eve we dropped Maycee and Cooper off at a friends house while we went to his work party with Oliver. This is Stephen's fourth year creating a video for their Christmas party. He really is talented. I was crying through the whole thing because I was laughing so hard. It might be funnier if you know the people, but I couldn't get enough of it!
At 4:00 we met at Stephen's parents' house for some good food. We snuck off for a minute to facetime my family and watch Karli open her mission call. She is going to Macon, Georgia. While she opened her mission call you could tell that she was getting emotional. I'm sure everyone else was, but she was only one we could see. I started crying, just realizing what was going to happen to her. She's going to have the experience of a lifetime.
Maycee received a plush Snow White doll that was about a foot tall from Grandma and Grandpa Post. It was so funny to watch her with that thing. She drug it everywhere. With little cousin Avery traipsing after her to hopefully lift the doll off of Maycee....it was really funny to watch. I talked to Maycee and asked her if she could share her doll with Avery for a couple of minutes. It was really cute to watch her give it to Avery. It was a proud Mommy moment, but it only lasted about 30 seconds as she ripped the doll out of Avery's hands proclaiming that her time was up.
We hung out at the in-laws for a few hours with Stephen's sisters' families and then headed off to do our own tradition that started, um, now. We gave the kids a Christmas Eve box. The box had pajamas, a new Christmas book, 'The Christmas Orange', a Mickey's Christmas Carol, and popcorn. We got the kiddos in their pajamas, read our book, popped popcorn, and watched our movie.
I think watching Mickey's Christmas Carol, and then a few nights before watching a Muppets Christmas Carol really confused Maycee. As we put her to bed that night, she asked if ghosts were going to come visit tonight. Poor girl. I think I set her straight.
On Christmas morning, Stephen made it so the kids couldn't come out of their rooms without us coming to grab them. 6:45am came super early as we heard the kiddos knocking on their door. We'd only slept for about five hours.
Before we went in to see if Santa had come, we set up out Little People Nativity and we acted out the story of Baby Jesus with the Little People. I kinda botched the story. We're going to have to work on that one.
Santa Claus came! It was really funny to watch the kids. They were most excited for the Mr. & Mrs. Potato Heads, Cooper's cars, and Maycee's my little pony's. That afternoon Stephen and I took a nap with Oliver and Cooper. I couldn't even tell you what Maycee did. After nap time, we bundled up and headed off to find some snow.
Maycee and Cooper got Cheetos in their stockings. They are addicted to those things.
We found a park in Meridian that still had some snow, so we bundled up to play. Stephen started off with Maycee and Cooper while I fed Oliver.
Isn't he cute!
And he has cute shoes!
Stephen ran all over the place with those kids in the sled. It was so fun to watch.
We had so much fun at the park! We basically had that place to ourselves.
That night we had hot chocolate and soup. I love my little family!
Merry Christmas!!
