We had an absolutely wonderful Christmas this year. Gabe had some time off a few days before so we really felt like we got to spend lots of fun family time together... which, shockingly, makes for much happier kids and parents;) On Christmas Eve we spent the morning making some soups... including taking on Great Grammy Civiello's meatball soup "recipe" which turned out pretty great. Noah, James and I attended the Christmas Eve church service which is always a great family pageant event and to top it all off we were able to get a decent family picture in front of the tree! The kids set out the milk and cookies for santa and excitedly went to bed.
Christmas morning we had some EXCITED boys. Santa brought everything they wanted and more... Ben's first stop was the left over milk and cookies on the table from Santa.... I think him spilling the milk was just a distraction so he could eat the cookies while we got some paper towels... next year maybe we will ask Santa to eat all of the cookies;) Present opening took what felt like an eternity given that they so badly wanted to play with each gift. As always they received more than they needed, but loved it all. Thank you everyone! They spent the rest of the day playing while Gabe and I took down and packed up all of the Christmas decorations... The neighbors were probably judging us for having our tree on the curb by 1pm, but oh well:) We made a great lamb roast for dinner and finished packing for our trip north tomorrow!
The bottom picture is of James's new found use for all of the "picking" he does. He loves to peel clementines and he is really good at it. They are pretty juicy though and had gotten the juice in his eyes more than once... here is his solution... genius!
Christmas morning we had some EXCITED boys. Santa brought everything they wanted and more... Ben's first stop was the left over milk and cookies on the table from Santa.... I think him spilling the milk was just a distraction so he could eat the cookies while we got some paper towels... next year maybe we will ask Santa to eat all of the cookies;) Present opening took what felt like an eternity given that they so badly wanted to play with each gift. As always they received more than they needed, but loved it all. Thank you everyone! They spent the rest of the day playing while Gabe and I took down and packed up all of the Christmas decorations... The neighbors were probably judging us for having our tree on the curb by 1pm, but oh well:) We made a great lamb roast for dinner and finished packing for our trip north tomorrow!
The bottom picture is of James's new found use for all of the "picking" he does. He loves to peel clementines and he is really good at it. They are pretty juicy though and had gotten the juice in his eyes more than once... here is his solution... genius!
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