Friday, December 31, 2010

Four Days of Christmas!

Christmas is a time of giving, sharing and being with the ones we love. I feel so very thankful for the wonderful life I have. Brian and I talk often about how we are so lucky to get along so well and love one another so much. We truly were meant to spend our lives together. Our love is evident in Bricen and Brianna. I know that they were very excited to open presents and get new things, but I think they were just as excited to give gifts. It was beautiful to see their eyes light up when someone else was opening a gift that they had picked out special for that person. We had my Aunt and Uncle and the cousin's over on Thursday evening to play, laugh and enjoy company. This was the start of the gift giving and opening and a good time was had by all!Christmas Eve, we had Brian's parents and sister over for ham dinner and gifts. This is always such a comfortable, enjoyable and meaningful get-together. The kids got me footed pajama's and pink sequin slippers and Brian a coffee mug and gumballs. They were so cute when we opened our gifts!


It is part of my Christmas tradition to read Rudolph before bed on Christmas Eve. We looked at the Santa tracker, set out cookies, milk and carrots for the reindeer and headed to bed.

At about 6am we heard little voices in the living room opening their stockings, then excited children came into the bedroom to get us up. They were very excited to open Santa's gifts...
Brianna got the i pod she asked for Bricen got a bb gun
The dogs even enjoyed the morining of opening gifts

There are lots of new fun toys to play with. After a relaxing morining and a most of the day to play with new toys, including a Wii, we headed to Brian's Aunt and Uncle's house. We enjoyed visiting with his extended family. Bricen and Brianna got to play with thier new cousin who was adopted from Tailand. They had a lot of fun!
Sunday was spent having a seafood dinner at my parents house, where there were more gifts, visiting and fun.

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