Christmas

This year we stayed home for Christmas(meaning Kansas).  We truly missed all of our families and getting to see everyone, it was rather bitter sweet. We had a wonderful time just the 4 of us hanging out and being lazy. It was nice to have the quiet to be able to reflect on everything this season really means and to spend good quality time with our children.

Our celebration started on Christmas Eve, we got to skype one set of their great grandparents and open the gifts from them in front of them.  That was a lot of fun.  Technology is an amazing thing.  It is nice to feel closer together when we are 1000miles apart. This is when Elijah got a taste of what was to come and he asked us a couple times for more presents. (we kept them all in our room, so he couldn't get too excited about them all sitting out.)

We opened presents on Christmas morning and it was so much fun to see Elijah get so into it. We had to open each present as it was opened and play with it for a minute.  He would then get so excited because he realized there was still more to open!  What a joy to see him have such a great time.  He even helped mommy and daddy open some presents.  On Christmas morning we got to skype the Turley family and the Luurtsema family.  That made for a lot of fun as they got to see them open the presents from them.  And Elijah loves to skype people and talk to them.  That afternoon we got to skype Auntie Lolo and Uncle Robert.  We stayed in our jammies all day, which was very nice(well except for me, I had to go to work that evening, but for everyone else it was pj day!)

It turned out to be a wonderful couple of days, and it was amazing that Greg got to have a four day weekend.  It was great to have 4 days of nothing but family time.  I hope everyone else had a fabulous Christmas.