We had a great Christmas, even though it didn't QUITE turn out the way we'd planned. We had PLANNED to go camping, but one of Jason's loser managers called out sick and guess who had to work in his place? Yup - you guessed it...Jason.
At least we had a fabulous back-up plan, and got to spend Christmas Eve with friends. We were invited back to the same home we went to last year - the Inza's - to celebrate a Cuban Christmas...complete with roast pig, black beans and white rice, and yucca. We played a couple rousing games of Scum with the adults (the Inza's hosted 3 other families besides us), and headed home for the reading of the book of Luke and The Night Before Christmas. We also opened our Christmas Eve Elf gifts...that little guy always leaves new jammies for the kids, and this year included a board game, The Pirates of the Caribbean version of Life (obviously intended to be played at our camp-site...but oh well!).
We woke bright and early the next morning, 5am to be precise, to see what Santa brought. We weren't expecting much, as Santa had already provided the tickets to the Orlando theme parks the week before, but lo! and behold! we also had a Wii Fit and several Wii games waiting under the tree, and some VERY full stockings. One of the biggest highlights were the DVDs stuffed in the stockings...2 movies for each person...meaning we have 14 new movies to add to our vast DVD collection!! WOW!!
There were some very special gifts this year...my Mom has been sewing quilts for the kids, and she got both Kaitlyn's and Josephs done for Christmas. They are absolutely beautiful...Kaitlyn's is a beautiful, colorful star quilt...
Josephs has a appliqued dragon on the front, with scales that lift with surprises beneath. Both had matching pillows...
She also made everyone darling aprons for helping around the house and crafting.
Brigham and Nicolette also got new bikes (they had seriously out-grown their other bikes)...
Kaitlyn got a WHOLE LOTTA books; Jason got a new iPod and lots of new clothes...
Joseph got a Swiss Army Knife; Mom got her Book #3 Avatar Box Set; and Savannah got a iMike, a karaoke microphone that plugs into her iPod and lets her sing along to the lyrics and then applause's at her performance...
We spent the day in our jammies, playing games and watching movies and eating junk...it was wonderful and relaxing and the kids had a ball....
Merry Christmas, Everyone!!!! 
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