Christmas is over :(

Well Christmas is over. In another 364 days we will be doing this all over again. It sounds so very far away when you say this in days because it seems SO far away, but like this year it will go by fast I'm certain.

So in Christmas Recap~

So we did a little traveling for Christmas. We went for a FAST trip to Indiana from Saturday - Sunday, staying at the hotel. The kids love staying at hotels, it is probably one of the strangest things. But they got to swim and see their cousins. Helen and Tim got us the hotel stay for our Christmas present. So it was good being able to go and see them. We went swimming a couple of times and the kids liked that. So at bedtime we were in the suite there at the Best Western so we had a king's sized bed and there was a little "living" room off of the bedroom. Well the girls slept on the floor and Nikolai was on the floor in our room initially until he woke up. This kid, who normally sleeps GREAT through the night, was up 3 times. So we put him in the bed with us. BIG mistake, he is part kangaroo he kicked me all night long, and it wasn't just a gentle kick it was BOTH FEET FULL FORCE in my gut, back, side... it didn't matter b/c he was going to kick... and he did. He wedged himself between us horizontally and I got his feet. He was ALL OVER the bed... it was not such a good night. After our stay at the hotel we went to see Tim and Helen's new house. It was nice it had enough room for all of their things and such. We had lunch there and we went back home. We wanted to get home because there was so much to get accomplished this weekend. So we got home and got things accomplished!

On Christmas Eve Tait went shopping for all of our menu items that I had planned for Christmas dinner. The kids I think enjoyed being home and being able to play with their toys. They were able to open one gift on Christmas Eve and we let them do that before lunch so all afternoon they played. Lehna had gotten Nikolai a Thomas the Train track and play set and he LOVED it, he watched the train go around in circles for hours. Maya opened the gift she already knew she was getting, the Lalaloopsy doll. And Lehna opened slippers and spa set for feet. They liked playing with all of their toys and of course they got new Pjs for Christmas morning. Here are some pictures of the happy kids.

We had an application on my Kindle that we were able to see where Santa was delivering all of the gifts, so we could track him. Tait had told the girls before they went to sleep that they needed to come get us in the morning before going in the front room. Tait likes to see their faces. So Maya woke up at 5:30 in the morning asking to see if she could see where Santa was... we pulled up the app and he had him laying in a hammock on the beach, and it just said Santa's journey is complete, than she wanted to know if he had come to our house... I told her to go look and Tait took her to the front room. She came back in our room all excited. Tait told her now she would have to wait until Lehna and Nikolai got up. So he told her she needed to go back to sleep. I told him he should just turn on cartoons b/c her returning to sleep was NOT going to happen. So at 6 am Lehna came in our room, rubbing her eyes and Maya promptly told her that Santa had delivered presents to our house and so she wanted to go out and look at them. Then at 6:30 Nikolai woke up. Our kids are early birds. So we went in the front room together and the carnage began.

Lehna wanted a guitar SOOOO badly... so she did get one... I however broke it when I was tuning it...  I over tightened the string... so she is getting a replacement tonight :(  Bad mommy

Nikolai was NOT interested in opening anything. Tait had opened a train as the first gift and that's all he was focused on he wanted it out of the package and that was it. So after the girls opened all of their gifts they helped their little brother by opening his gifts, they are thoughtful.

 

So they were pretty busy all day. They played and played and we watched Christmas movies and I listened to Christmas music. Tait and I made Christmas dinner and we just really enjoyed being together. It was bitter sweet. I defiantly enjoy being with family and friends, but this was really nice just being able to be home and not having to jam in the car and drive it was just really nice. The kids got to play with their toys and enjoy each other. It was really a nice day.

 

Nikolai LOVES this trains. I'm going to do a separate entry for his train’s b/c he LOVES them and I have pictures to upload.

But it was a really nice Christmas. I did miss seeing my family and hopefully we can get down seeing them again soon.

So enjoy the pictures..