Christmas #1

Since I had to worked Christmas night we opted to spend Christmas eve and Christmas day at home. This year we invited Tob's mom over to spend the day with us. On Christmas eve we were delivering treats in the dark and trying to be sneaky when little miss crazy pants didn't heed mom's warning of "Watch out for the ROCK" as we were running toward home. Needless to say the rock completely took her out. This was an abnormally large decorative rock so you can picture the event in your mind. Her injuries consisted of a few bruises, some rather loud screaming and a non-functioning ankle x 14 hours and then she was on the mend.

After cheering Lex up and icing her ankle, they opened their Christmas eve Jammies and had their Christmas eve photo taken. Notice Lex sitting in the chair, who refused to put any weight on the affected foot. Nojah was a good brother and assisted her to bed that night.

Grandma Val arrived about 9:30 in the morning and the kids were almost ready to burst waiting to open their presents. They had been up since 5:45 when I found the dog trying to tear open her stocking due to the LARGE tasty treat she could sniff inside. We ate Orange rolls, drank coffee and sat to watch the kids open their gifts.

This year we came up with riddles for the kids to find their big gifts. It was fun watching them try to figure them out and it was a bonus to not to have to wrap them.

Nojah found his new snowboard under our bed.

I slept for the afternoon while Grandma was off taking care of some things at the house she was sitting for, while Tob and the kids visited with Grandpa Neal through skype.

Then we all sat down to eat our own Cornish hens, rice, sugar snap peas, rolls and tainted fruit salad. When I woke up Tob had informed me that he accidentally mixed up the knives he was using to cut open the raw Cornish hens and the one he was cutting the fruit with. He said that he threw away the top half of the fruit and asked if he thought it was ok to eat. My response was I probably would have just washed it in a colander and called it good but I am sure that's fine. Nojah was SO distraught over the news he refused to eat any fruit salad and was close to tears begging me NOT to eat it. So everyone but Nojah and I enjoyed the fruit salad and now 3 days later we are all still alive to talk about it, without any serious side effects.

After dinner Lex went to sleep over with Grandma, I went to work and Tob and Nojah stayed home to bond and do whatever it is that boys do. All in all it was a relaxing nice day and we are looking forward to Christmas #2 with my parents, Grandma, and brother this upcoming weekend.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.