A quiet little Christmas!
25 Dec 2011 1 Comment
This year was very different than many for us…It’s hard to believe that our house could ever seem quiet, but it did! We spent most of Christmas with just the five of us as there were many around us that were sick and we just didn’t want Anika to catch it. We did manage to squeeze in a couple of visits with family and then had plenty of new toys and activites to keep everyone busy.
On Christmas eve we left Anika with a babysitter and snuck away to Grandma’s in Indian Head for a short visit in the morning. It was really hard to leave Anika, but nice to see everyone else. We had a quick breakfast with Michelle, David and the kids, Douglas and Grandma and then were back to see Anika – she was so excited, and loved opening her presents! It was so cute!
We had a short visit with grandma and grandpa in the early afternoon and then enjoyed a great supper with just the five of us. Brianna was so excited that Santa was going to come and even slept in a bit (I think she was freaked out that Santa was still going to be in the house!). When the girls saw their presents they were vibrating with excitement! We had breakfast and then opened our presents together. Just before lunch grandma and grandpa and Eliza and Dave came for a visit and the girls were happy to open more presents and have some visitors. In the afternoon Brianna took to scrapbooking…and she was quite good at it! After some more playing, it was supper, a quick jump in the hot tub, more playing and then off to bed. Definately a different Christmas for us all.
Sierra was absolutely enthralled with the paper and was actually really good at opening the presents too! It was a lot of fun to see her rip into the paper!
Finally got ahold of what she wanted!
Opening presents…
At grandma’s…
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you had a great holiday!
Also, in exciting news, Sierra is now crawling! She was getting really close and then with the excitement and all of the paper that was always just out of her reach, it was enough to push her to actually do it! Now we really have to watch out!
Dec 25, 2011 @ 22:11:43
Merry Christmas to you guys – guess we should have planned that Skype date after all as we were along most of the day too. Sorry to hear plans didn’t work out, but i’m sure you all had fun together and you can think back fondly to your quiet Christmas in the future when they get really crazy:) Will chat soon:)