Christmas Time

 

As always we had a wonderful Christmas together as a family.  We spent most of Christmas Eve with my family since Craig's parents were in Florida.  Christmas Eve morning we met up with my family, minus Sunni's clan, at Eagle Island to try out their tubbing hill.  McKay was a little hesitant at first and always wanted to ride with someone else, but by the end he was so proud to go down all by himself, even if that meant he sunk down low in the tube and closed his eyes.  It was a lot of fun to go out and do something active with the whole family.  After tubbing we headed over to Casa Mexico, a family favorite, for lunch.  My mom was able to reserve the banquet room which allowed the kids to roam.  After lunch we all headed home for a quick shower and then back up to my Mom's for the reading and acting out of the nativity, cousin presents, our gift to Christ,  and more food. We then headed home to get the kiddos to bed and make sure Santa was ready for the next morning.

Luckily the kids weren't up too early Christmas morning.  I got up a little early to get the French toast casserole in the oven and make sure everything was ready to go downstairs.  At 7:00 we then let the kids head downstairs to see if Santa had come.  I love watching the awe and excitement of kids on Christmas morning, it doesn't get much better than that.  After going through Santa's gifts we took a break and ate some breakfast and then went back to finish up the gifts.  The kids were so excited to buy each other gifts this year.  They may have only been from the dollar store but they were as big of a hit as the more expensive gifts form Mom and Dad.  

Once all the gifts were opened and playing had begun, Craig and I started to get packed up to head up to the cabin.  We decided that since Craig still had Saturday and Sunday off we might as well take advantage of the weekend and head to McCall as well.  We had the cabin to ourselves and Craig and Brooklyn headed up to the ski hill for the first ski of the season and then we spent the rest of the time playing in the snow and drinking hot chocolate.  It really was a magical Christmas!