We were so excited to be in our new house before Christmas time. I have to admit that it was stressful though trying to get unpacked, decorated for Christmas and do festivities with the kids. Considering the circumstances, we did pretty well getting ready for Christmas. We were able to go to the zoo and see the Christmas lights, see Santa, go see a couple houses with dancing Christmas lights to music, get a Christmas tree, make treats for the neighbors and make gingerbread houses. I was going to skip on the Gingerbread houses since it is so time consuming making the gingerbread, cutting the houses, frosting and decorating them… but Abe talked me in to doing it.
Girls santa wish lists:
Adeline- camera, easy bake mixer
Norah- Princess pumpkin dog
Meika- Elsa doll
Meika was SO afraid of Santa and refused to go and see him. I bought cute Christmas outfits for the kids and my intent was to get them all dressed up and go get pictures with Santa. While at Abe's work Christmas party at Bass Pro Shops, we stumbled upon a Santa there. Abe was by himself with Meika and got her to go and sit with Santa by herself by telling her that if she wanted her beloved Elsa doll, she had to personally ask him. Of course all the other kids then wanted to see Santa, so I figured we would get our Santa picture and visit over with while we were there.
We ended up celebrating Christmas a day early because a big storm was coming in on Christmas day and we were planning on driving to Utah right after the kids opened their presents. I'm so glad we did, because we would not have made it home on Christmas because the freeway ended up shutting down! So on Christmas Eve morning we had Christmas morning, drove to Utah and made it to my Grandma Jeanne's house for her Christmas Eve celebration and surprised everyone because they thought we would be arriving the next day. Christmas evening was spent at my Grandma Dofi's house for her annual Christmas dinner and production. We hadn't been to that since Adeline was a toddler, so it was fun to take part in that. I still hadn't met Sierra's "baby" Indie and they also showed up at my Grandma's that night.
