No matter what this picture says, we had a wonderful Christmas.... we learned our lesson last year about keeping it low key so that we actually have time to spend just being together, instead of spending the days leading up to Christmas baking, cooking, and wrapping. We did bake on Christmas Eve, but it was fun and not too much. We ordered pasta in for Christmas Eve dinner (as opposed to the 6 hours it took us to prepare dinner last year). And Dar and I were able to have a drink and watch a movie on Christmas Eve after we put the boys to bed. It was wonderful. We did miss out on the Christmas Eve service at our church because it was right during naptime and because we got a significant amount of snow on the 23rd and 24th. But, we read the Christmas Story and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus... which was probably more our pace this year anyway. And Derby Mow (Abe chose Derby, Jack chose Mow -- I wonder why...) came to live at our house. He is an Elf on The Shelf that watches over the boys and reports back to Santa every night. He changes positions and the boys have to find his hiding spot every morning. We've had a lot of fun with him.
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| Concentrating on cookies |
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| Always one boot on and one boot off |
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Abe's master creation -- Santa and his table of cookies
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This is what happens when parents are up too late wrapping.
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| Concentrating on making gingerbread houses |
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| "I wonder how much of this candy I can eat without them noticing?" |
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| The proud owners of their first homes. |
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| Enjoying an easy Christmas Eve dinner |
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| Abe was excited to unwrap some new books from his brother. |
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| Toy Story aliens from Abe! |
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| Unwrapping presents from Grandma and Grandpa |
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| Black Orca! |
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| Brothers gotta hug |
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| Jack got his very own Curious George from the CA Mathisons |
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| Abe with Smokey the Horse |
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| And Jack with Patches the Dog |
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| A bin full of balls! |
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| Charley will be joining the Mathison Brothers Band. |
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