Christmas 2010

I can't believe Christmas is over already.
I'm actually sad this year! Dec was such a magical month for Brandon.
He loves all the houses decorated with lights,
our Christmas tree, yelling at our blow up snowman and moose to to hurry up and inflate.
Listening to Christmas songs on the radio,
Watching The Grinch that stole Christmas almost every day
and of course waiting for Santa to come.

This year we spent Christmas week baking 9 batches of cookies.
Christmas Eve we went again to the Children's mass at Church.
B loves watching all the children dressed up as angels and wise men.
He stood on his chair to watch it all as we were sitting. (the people behind us said it was ok)
(I love that he says/sings the "our Father" prayer with us as a Church)
Then we went back to my parents to eat dinner and watch the Grinch one more time.
We went home and B got in his PJ's and wrote a letter to Santa
I think he said he wrote "Love Santa"

Then we set out the cookies and milk and Carrot.
B also told me to make sure the fire was out in the fireplace so that Santa didn't get burned.

We put B to bed and Kenn and I snuggled by the fire to watch "its a wonderful life"
Then Santa came :)
This picture is actually very misleading...
We have the habit of stuffing presents under the tree

I always have trouble sleeping on Christmas...
Brandon always wakes us up at 7am sharp every day.
Apparently on Christmas he didn't get the memo.
Kenn woke me up and we let the dogs out, turned the tree lights on, got the video camera.
basically were a little loud till it woke B up.
He got up walked into our bedroom like normal, still 1/2 a sleep.
we asked him who came the night before, he didn't get what we were asking
Finally we told him "did santa come?"
THEN he ran down the hallway.

I have to apologize, we are HORRIBLE about taking pictures on holidays.
the ones below are literally the only ones I took.
We always video tape and it goes by so quick and I don't want to be behind a camera for the whole thing so we never get any good shots.
(same with peoples houses for the rest of the day,
I never even took my camera out of my purse)

B's new leapfrog hand held game system.
Opening the Woody doll he asked for (and subsequently didn't talk)
I had to take him back and exchange him yesterday...

you can prob guess a theme here. Almost everything was Disney related.

Don't judge... he likes to help me sweep

and even though I have tried to "fight it" Brandon has been exposed to the world of
crime fighting action heroes from school.
So I caved and got him a spiderman.
(which he loves and has lost the 2 webs that he shoots out like 10x already)

Mocha playing in the paper

Brandon rides his new scooter up and down our hall and kitchen.
You MUST refer to him as "super brandon scooter power to the rescue"

I also got him a random Toy Story "grooming kit".
(He has a thing about his hair)
and they had a shaving kit in it, B FORCED me to give him a bath tonight
just so he could play with it again.

Its very cute :)

So after we woke up and did our family presents and ate a big breakfast
we got dressed and went to my parents to open a mountain of gifts there.
Then off to my Grandmothers to see my Dad's side of the family.
Then we went to Kenn's Grandmothers house to eat lunch and visit with his mom.
THEN to Christmas dinner with the Chisholm Family.

It's a lot to do in one day but we get a solid 2hrs at each house
and we love getting to see all of our family members.
(Brandon loved that there were gifts all day long)
We were very spoiled, so we knew that we were either very good this year...
Or very loved :)