Our family was lucky enough to see family whom we have not seen in years, and welcomed a new addition, which helped to ignite the Christmas cheer. (No, I am not pregnant, my father in law married a wonderful lady).
We started to ring in the Christmas season with our annual ride on the Polar Express, we also hit many light displays, and Adeline and her Nana went to see the Nutcracker Ballet, what a wonderful experience for both. Adeline wants to be a mouse next year in the Nutcracker!! The kids helped decorate the tree, put up our Christmas snow village and re arranged the presents under the tree hundreds of times.
Then came to anticipated day. Christmas Eve. Our family has the tradition of opening all of the family presents after dinner on Christmas Eve, then we are visited by Santa for Christmas Day. As we were eating our big Christmas Eve dinner, poor Adeline's asthma kicked into full gear and she had such horrible coughing fits and broncho spasms, that lead to her vomiting at the dinner table.
She did recover well and we moved on to opening presents. The excitement of the kids is what makes Christmas so special. The last words I heard from my two little Christmas kids were that they were going to stay up all night for Santa, about two minutes later they were both asleep, exhausted from all the festivities.
Sure enough, the next morning Santa had left his gifts underneath the tree. Adeline and Carson could not understand why they did not hear Santa and his reindeer. They both agreed they must have been too tired to hear it, that and Santa has Christmas magic to get down the chimney. The big Dragon Castle, and the Barbi bike were the big hits. The remote control car from a cousin kept them occupied all day.
I hope everyone had a magical and wonderful holiday.
Please see the picture slide show!
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