More Christmas Fun

We had some great Christmas fun this week, and now we're digging ourselves out of the Christmas tornado ever so slowly.   

Here are some of the highlights from the past couple of days:

 We made our gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve, with the help of Shannon and Derek. 

Christmas morning was nice and relaxing, with present opening beginning around 8 a.m.  Now that is my kind of morning.  How did the kids wait that long you ask?  We kept them up late the night before doing gingerbread houses, so they all slept in :).  Megan did get up at around 7ish, but with no one else up, she climbed into bed with John and I and promptly fell back to sleep.  Alicia admitted to waking up around 7 a.m., but upon hearing no movement in the house, she remained in her bed and played her DS. 

We did our Christmas strings as usual, with their big-ticket Santa item at the end.

 Santa made Kimberly go outside with her string.  ha-ha.

 It was a lovely, relaxed day - the kind where we got to stay in our PJ's all day, didn't shower until dinnertime, and enjoyed being with each other as a family playing games, tinkering with toys, watching movies, and eating lots of Christmas candy.  It really doesn't get any better than that. 

Now on the day after Christmas, we are digging ourselves out of the snowstorm - John has taken care of the driveway four times today - two with the snow blower, and two with the snow shovel.  Now he and the girls are headed out to do doughnuts in the parking lot.  I think I shall pass on that adventure.