Merry Christmas

I can hardly believe that Christmas has already come and gone this year. We've been so busy that it really just snuck up on us until all of a sudden, it was Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We had such a great time with everyone and the kids were so excited about it all. And of course it didn't pass without us having a few laughs along the way:

A little background on this first story. My parents came up last Thursday for MM's Christmas program at school. While they were here, my mom wanted to get their pictures taken by the tree in their Christmas pajamas. She has ornaments of them each year in their Christmas pj's. Well, we got the girls pictures taken and then when Andrew got home from school we sent him upstairs to put his on for his picture, and of course they were nowhere to be found. We put his ones from last year on (thank goodness we bought a size bigger than needed) and took his picture, you really can't tell from the picture which ones he is wearing because it's really just a close up of his face. After they left, I looked EVERYWHERE for the other ones, I was starting to wonder if I had left them at Disney. I did every last piece of laundry in hopes that they would show up, but no such luck. Well, Christmas Eve rolls around and we start getting the kids ready for bed and we can't even find Andrew's old Christmas pajamas. I knew we had taken them to my parents house earlier in the week and thought maybe somehow we had left them there. Andrew started crying saying that Santa wasn't going to come see him if he didn't have Christmas pajamas. We assured him that Santa would still come see him with or without Christmas pjs. He decided that he wanted to wear his monster truck ones, but of course we couldn't find the top, so he had to settle on the ones he had worn the night before with the big chocolate milk stain on the front. Fabulous. I couldn't wait to take pictures Christmas morning with those on. While he was playing and winding down for bedtime, I started searching for any of our lost Christmas pajamas. I finally remembered that as I was packing things up at my parents house, I had seen them lying on the floor in their room and since I had already packed the overnight bags, I had thrown them in a bag with some gifts they had received. I found the bag and there found the Christmas pajamas (of 2007)...still no luck on the 2008 ones. We told Andrew that we must have left them at Disney and he got upset saying he wanted them back. We said, Mickey was probably wearing them now and that we were sure he was very thankful to Andrew for the new pjs. He seemed satisfied with that and asked if I would tell Markle (our elf) that he had left his pajamas at Disney for Mickey, because that was very nice of him, and make sure Markle told Santa how nice he was? We finally sent the kids off to bed and once they were asleep, we pulled out the stocking stuffers...Marc and I had bought a few things while at Disney for their stockings and as soon as we got home, I had thrown them in the back of a closet to hide them. We pulled the bag out and guess what we found in there? The 2008 version of Andrew's Christmas pjs! (we also found the monster truck pj shirt in there as well) We definately had a good laugh about that. We folded the pajamas up and placed them outside Andrew's door, when he woke up the next morning, he found them and we said Santa must have brought them from Disney and left them for him.

On Christmas morning as we were opening presents, Marc handed one to Mary McLean from the both of us. She ripped the paper off and her excitement plummeted as she exclaimed, "It's nothing!" Of course, it wasn't actually nothing, it was a princess costume that I had wrapped in a plain white gift box. She was so used to opening things and seeing what it was on the outside of the box, that this one was most disappointing. FYI...she got 4 more boxes just like that! We really had a good laugh about that one.

And yes I believe I have the only child alive that is excited about getting clothes, Mary McLean loved it. "Oooh, they're so pretty!" Andrew's reaction: "Boring."

We also got a Wii from my parents along with some extra controllers from my uncle. Andrew has become a master bowler, and is really quite good at driving the cars on Mario Kart. My shoulder is a little sore today from the boxing and bowling yesterday, guess I just need more practice! ;) heehee

I'll post our pictures as soon as I finish uploading them to a slideshow. I hope everyone else had a very Merry Christmas!