Faith came down with the stomach bug from Christian on the 23rd and by the 24th was still not up to participating in our Christmas Eve Extravaganza. Buddy chose to be a wise man this year with Alaura as Mary and Noah as Joseph.
Eric was the angel, way to rock that costume!
The kids woke up at 5:50 a.m. Christmas morning, but followed the rule and waited until 6 to get us up and start opening gifts and stockings.
Dusty got some toy mice from Santa!
The kids didn't have much to open because they both wanted an iPod Touch from Santa. We told them that they were way too expensive and the only way that could happen is if we sent all the money we were going to spend on presents to Santa Claus and all the money together would be enough. To our surprise, they both agreed to that! Well Santa surely came through:
But Tony couldn't help but overspend and get a family gift, as well--the Kinect system to go with our X-box (it reads your motion with a camera and it's like the Wii, but without using controllers) and some games for it.
After a few hours of playing with their ipods and eating a breakfast of bacon and eggs, we got ready for church.
After church we went to my mom & dad's where we were deluged with fun gifts.
Then to Braegger's for even more!!
Unfortunately, Tony started feeling sick and ended up with the stomach flu from the kids--terrible Christmas gift, by the way! We hurried home and got him to bed. While the kids played with their new stuff, I started the miniseries of Pillars of the Earth which I had recorded on our DVR a few weeks before.
Tony mostly slept through the episodes I watched that night, but the next day he really got into them and we watched all nine hours of it! It's a story, set in the 12th century, about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England and the soap opera of what goes on in the people's lives. We really enjoyed it!
Over the next few days Tony recuperated and I helped Buddy with some of his gross experiments from the "Doctor Dreadful Food Lab" toy he'd gotten from my mom. Here we had just made gummy bugs.
Tony was all better by New Year's Eve and we went to his mom & dad's to party! It was just our family + Zach this year over there with them, but we enjoyed our Chili's ribs just the same. We played lots of games (Faith's favorite being Catch Phrase), made lots of noise, and watched the ball drop.
Happy New Year!! We're all excited to see what 2012 brings.
I wanted to include pics of our ornaments for this year. We just started a few years ago getting a new ornament each year, but because of illness and just slacking, we didn't get one before Christmas. We went through the sale stuff at WalMart on January 5th and there wasn't much left that was any good, but I kind of liked this chapel ornament and it reminded me of our miniseries, so we got it.
The kids also wanted these doggy ones for their trees in remembrance of Crumpet.
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