We spent this Christmas at the farm with Gammy & Popsy while Nonni and Grandpa Mikey were visiting with Craig, Liz and the girls in Buffalo. We had a small celebration with Nonni and Grandpa Mikey on the 20th and then headed to High Point on the 23rd. We were grateful to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with the Moores so we got LOTS of cousin time in before we headed back to Raleigh in the evening on the 25th.
Some highlights of Christmas this year...
-The kids have loved the remote control car set from Nonni and Grandpa Mikey. The objective of the cars is to crash them into each other and eject either one driver or both from the cars, a barbeque or a double barbeque, respectively per Henry. We have no idea how he came up with the term but it has stuck.
-Henry saying to William prior to opening his gift from us, "I know what we got for you William, a Nerf gun!" To which I shouted, "Henry!" and he replied, "Oh, darn it!"
-A fun Christmas Eve dinner with the Herrmanns, Lysees, Jodie and Thomas. Pays was super excited to give his secret margarita recipe and its fixin's as a dirty Santa gift.
-Two almost Mommy fails...I forgot to ask Marty to borrow her Sleeping Beauty DVD to give to Samantha as her gift from Santa until the am on Christmas day which necessitated some hasty wrapping of the DVD in a plastic bag in a recycled coffee mug box. Thankfully she didn't ask too many questions but I think had she been another year older the Santa guise would have been found out.
-For one of her stocking gifts from Santa I had used our home wrapping paper which she was familiar with, "Look Mommy, Santa has the same wrapping paper!" Man, I don't think that will fly next year.
-Bruno has continued his tradition as the ultimate holiday pest and was caught walking down the top of the dining room table more than once. On one trip he did manage to eat an entire stick of butter.
-Samantha and Julia played princesses non-stop and all 5 big kids were enjoying playing dress-up together.
-It was trampoline weather, rain or shine.
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