My sister-in-law Brandy, with Beau
Kristin and cousin, Hunter
A Nintendo DSi!!!!
Christmas Eve Krisitn and I went out to do some last minute shopping for Chris. I knew it would be worse than a normal Christmas Eve since we had snow coming....everyone would be out getting groceries and such, but we went anyway, and had so much fun. We just went to Wal-Mart and managed to not let Chris see us. We did run into the store manager who said it was busier than the day after Thanksgiving...crazy! He was anxiously awaiting a shipment of milk to come in since they were pretty much out. I was thankful I'd done my grocery shopping the night before. Anyway, we got our gifts, and made our way home. It was rainy and cold. Around 5 it started sleeting and then later changed over to snow. Kristin and I made our cookies for Santa while the snow moved in...
The dogs were less than excited about everything going on!
We read the Christmas Story and The Night Before Christmas then K FINALLY got to sleep (the last time we'd checked the santa tracker, he was in North America, so she hopped in bed, but got out several times and even told me to sleep on the couch so I could catch Santa!) and Santa got to work.
Kristin and her letter from Santa
Santa's work is done!
Visions of sugarplums???
The next morning K woke us up around 7:30 saying "Santa was here and brought me the doll I wanted!" Here are a few pictures:
Kristin was so excited to get a Touch n Brush!
After K opened her presents, she got dressed to go play in the snow. We got 3-4 inches and this was K's second white Christmas (her first was the year she was born).
Our usual Christmas morning breakfast: biscuits and chocolate gravy.
This year I bought baklava...Chris and K had never had it, and I love it, so I decided they needed to try it. They loved it, of course. Maybe one day I will get brave enough to try to make it. Until then, Wal-Mart bakery works just fine! Oh, Chris and I got presents too, but we can never wait until Christmas to give them! Chris got two gift cards..one to MLB.com and Nascar.com, a couple of Wii games and new pajama pants. I got a spafinder gift card, the 4th season of Criminal Minds, perfume, and Chicago Cutlery knives (Chris gave those to me after Thanksgiving!).We pretty much just hung around the house the rest of the day. K played outside a lot and we made snow cream. Around 9:30 Chris left for work and K and I watched Titanic. She LOVES that movie and anything about the Titanic (yesterday we went to Calahan's for lunch and they had the tv on the weather channel. Well, they were talking about icebergs and the Titanic. Kristin had to changes seats so she could watch it!) We turned it off though before the ship sank and went to bed.
Yesterday we took K to the movies...we saw Alvin and the Chipmunks. It was cute. We saw a preview for Alice in Wonderland. It looks so crazy, but the story of Alice is pretty freaky...he had to have been on something when he wrote it. Anyway, I'm sure we'll be going to see it. Kristin has a somewhat twisted sense of humor and imagination...it's right up her alley!
Next weekend we are going to Cabot for our third Christmas. On Wednesday morning Kristin is having three teeth pulled. Two on the bottom and one on top. The permanent teeth are coming in behind the baby teeth, so they baby ones have to be pulled. Luckily our dentist does oral sedation, which is great, because Kristin is going to need something other than laughing gas to calm her down. I may need something myself. Hopefully it will all go well and the rest of her teeth come in where they are supposed to! If we keep on like this, the tooth fairy is going to go broke!
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