You have to be special to get on my calendar between Thanksgiving and Christmas I tell ya. There is no such thing as a down-time weekend this time of year for me. Let me give ya the recap.
Friday was about as relaxed as it gets right now. We had pizza and watched Mickey's Christmas Carol with the kids at dinner. We then spent the rest of the evening making room for our Christmas Tree. We discovered that we were so not using our hall closet. It now contains the wagon and the double stroller among many other items that were stacked up in our living room. The biggest challenge was getting all of the toys put back in Ephriam's room. We now have limited number of toys in our living room and most of the space is dedicated to K.C. Ephriam got over it on Saturday when the Christmas stuff came out.
Saturday I had to do some work from home so I completed that in the morning. At noon we dropped the kids at Grandma's and headed out to the wilderness to find our Christmas tree. It didn't take us long to find the perfect douglas fir to cram into our living room. We brought it home and set it up and gave it some good water to drink. We got the lights on the tree and the star while Ephriam wasn't around to get into things. Then we went an picked up the kids and brought them home to decorate the tree. Ephriam was a tad bit excited about the tree to say the least. We spent the rest of the evening decorating around the house for Christmas and we still haven't finished.
Sunday we had church in the morning where we as a family read a devotion and lit the first candle of the Advent wreath. That was pretty neat and Ephriam was well behaved. We had lunch after church and then picked up the Youth Kids to go wrap Christmas Presents at the mall as an outreach. That was a lot of fun. We came home and had some dinner and I spent the rest of the evening working on the toy boxes for the kids. For the most part they are built. I just need to get the hardware to attach the lids and we need to put their names on them. They are going to be really cool when they are done. Definitely very huge.
So now I go back to work for the week and next weekend we have Christmas parties to go to on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Fun fun. Ok, well I gotta get back to work.
Chris
Ok, so this is a picture of our living room before the chaos. You can see the 2 completed toy chests that are bigger than the kids themselves, but really cool. We got Ephriam up at 7 AM and he stumbled down the hall and ran straight for the presents. He then about fell into them because he was still groggy, but finally settled on playing with the Lightning McQueen car until we had to take it away so that he would open other gifts. We finished up presents with the kids and a little breakfast before we headed for Toledo. The chaos continued there all day. The kids were pretty pooped. We returned home very late that night and slept most of the day after Christmas. We are still in the cleanup stages and I am going to be opening boxes for Ephriam and K.C. for the next several months as they discover their new toys. It was a blast, but now I am ready for some rest. I will post more pictures later.
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