Sunday, January 23, 2011

Catch up time- Christmas

I have been so bad at keeping my blog up lately. I have lots of excuses, but I will spare you and just picture dump to get us up to speed.

Cute girl looking festive in her Christmas dress.

Addie loves her Aunties a lot, she gets spoiled by the all the attention.

Our celebratory "yule log" only time we have used our fireplace in our house since we moved here. Since we are moving in the summer I think it is probably the first and last.
Here is the tree with the mountain of presents before we started opening. Jon and I have significantly different traditions when it comes to Christmas morning. We are still "discussing" them and how we are possibly to compromise.
Growing up, Santa always left our presents unwrapped in and by each of our stockings. The rest of the presents (from Grandparents, siblings, etc) were wrapped and we took all day taking turns opening them. It was fun to have to wait for everyone to wake up to all go in and see the gifts at the same time. My parents would sometimes also prolong the suspense by making us go and eat breakfast first before we were allowed in the room where the presents were.
In Jon's family Santa wraps all the gifts and puts them in a mountain under the tree. They were allowed to wake up as early as they wanted and go look at the presents, but they had to wait to open them until everyone was awake. Then they would take turns opening all the presents from Santa and everyone.
Of course I think my way is right and he thinks his way is. I don't know how we will ever decide how to do it. We need to decide quick though, because we are about to the point of staying home for Christmas morning instead of doing it with our parents. Anyone have suggestions?
Matching Christmas day outfits from Grandma Tina.
Opening presents...both kids were spoiled by all the presents. Santa even came back then next day when Aunt Mary Anne came down and brought more. It was crazy! We had a wonderful Christmas with the Jon's family.





1 comment:

Margaret said...

You probably just have parents that were too lazy to wrap everything. This year at Rachel's they had to wrap everything...including gifts from Santa...because the children's rooms were closer to the tree than the parent's and they didn't want any peeking before Mom and Dad could get downstairs to supervise. Whatever way you work out will be great and you can modify it as your needs change. Thanks fro all the pictures of those cute girls. Love, Mom