[Mars]

Share with us (what did you do, where did you go, what did you get, what about the little ones...) and pics too if you want.

[Mjp121212]

We had a lovely Christmas. On Christmas eve we went to Matt's family, and I endured that just fine. Brayden got a lot of cars and stuff there, so he was happy hahahaha! Then we came home and Brady opened up all his gifts that were wrapped, even the Santa ones because he got carried away haha! On Christmas day I got up at 7am to put his others unwrapped under the tree. He had gotten bored with unwrapping them by then. I also began putting together his Knex rollercoaster. WOW that was hard! we had dinner with my family and opened gifts again, but Brady just wanted to play. Then I took him to see his dad and i went with matt, his brother and his brother's family to see a movie at the cheap theater ($2 and $3 tickets!) Then I got Brady back and I came home.

I didn't get much since my mom had paid for me to go to TN at Thanksgiving. So I got a sewing machine.....just a plain and simple one, but it works! And Matt got me Wii points, a photo album, Wrath of the Lich King for WoW, ear buds, and a geode. Brayden got a ton of little cars, a hotwheels race track, some art stuff, a tent, a sleeping bag, a pop up system that has tunnels and tents, some games, clothes, books, reading system and games, lincoln logs, wrestling stuff, a build a bear set, tool set, book bag, just tons of stuff. Too much stuff really haha. His dad got him playdoh, real golf clubs and a bag, a matchbox set and matchbox cars, and some kind of learning system (I picked it out)

[Mars]

Glad you had a great time. Brayden really scored on the gifts!!

Mine was quite nice too. Amara and I went to church with my family (5:30AM church). I didn't sleep well because I kept waking to check the time as I needed to be up around 3AM. We left home around 5AM and began the 25 minute drive to my parents' home and then to church (only a minute away from my parents). After church, we spent the first part of the day at my parents with my sisters, nieces, nephews, etc. Andre joined us at my parents and we had brunch, opened gifts, watched a movie and shared in loads of laughter.

When came home and I took a nap before getting ready to go to DH's parents for the second part of the day. It was raining so Amara opened the gifts that were under our tree for her and DH set up her tricycle. Once that was done, we headed to DH's parents' house, had some food, I sang Christmas karaoke and Amara opened more gifts before we left.

When we got home, her godparents passed and dropped of her gift and then I put her to bed before turning in around 10PM.

[~*Bethy*~]

We had a good christmas as well, very laid back! Of course it was Bella's first christmas she was a good sport about all of the gifts, mainly the wrapping paper - she was ALL over that! She got some cute toys to hang on her carseat, the 3 of them got pillow pets, and various other toys (can I pull my hair out now??) Morgan got a leapster, so now both of them have one and there is no fighting!

We spent christmas eve with Jay's mom, ate dinner, opened gifts, then went home and chilled. We had christmas with my dad the weekend before since hes always out of town on actual christmas. I got a crock pot cook book (YAY!!) jay got a few movies and a xbox game. the kids made out like bandits!

We spent christmas day with my mom. It was very laid back, and Im happy to report that Bella was in good spirits both christmas even and day!! SUCH a relief!! Morgan and Bella got 2 of my old toys, which I cherish dearly. both are homemade by my grandma. one is a cute little pink clown ( I LOVE HER!!) Shes so snuggly! And my other one is a sock monkey with a cute little dress and hat. Im so blessed to have a grandma who made such AWESOME toys. I have a mime clown and a raggity ann doll that are sitting up on my headboard (both homemade by grandma) and that is where the clown and monkey will go as well. all in all, we made out pretty good

~Beth