Christmas 2014

Christmas Eve was a nice slow day at home.  Sawyer, Beau and Clint went mountain biking, and I got food and things together.  We went to Grammy and Grandpa's for a Christmas Eve party.  Grammy outdid herself with the appetizers.  The boys got to open gifts and they were thrilled.  Paul had a fever and felt horrible.  The poor child was pathetic.  We came home and the boys were a breeze to get into bed (very eager for Santa to come).  Before bedtime though Sawyer was very careful to leave out cookies, milk, carrots, and reindeer food in the yard.

Sawyer was the first up Christmas morning.  Beau, Paul and I didn't sleep very well because the two little boys were dealing with ear infections.  Sawyer immediately saw his popper and then his puppy in his stocking.  The child has so much self control and came and got me to ask if he could get his puppy out of his stocking.  Paul was in bed with us and went with him and came back to bed with ''Ralph'' (he came up with the name himself), his own puppy.  We waited until Beau woke up then we had stockings.

After stockings we ate breakfast and cleaned up from the morning.  At this point Paul needed a nap.  The rest of us read the nativity story and opened the gifts under the tree and played.  The boys were in heaven with their gifts.

Grammy and Grandpa showed up later in the afternoon for a steak dinner and brought more gifts!  They nailed it.  The boys loved every present they brought and the evening was full of hysterical laughter and squeals of delight.  It really was a sweet magical day for us all.

 

Doug made me a custom laundry hamper for our laundry room.  It has been life changing!  Definitely my favorite Christmas gift this year (totally shows what stage of life I am in when I get excited over a laundry hamper).