December 2013

The birth of Jesus Christ. Decorations. Traditions. Gift Giving. Food. Family.

We celebrate all of the above and this year was no exception. It was a little different with my grandma having passed in May as well as family drama that has caused some traditions to cease. That didn’t stop us from making this a memorable Christmas for our children as we do every year. I wasn’t the least bit stressed about shopping this year which was nice. Ken always helps me shop for the kids and as they get older the presents get more expensive, but usually more simple and easier to wrap.

The kids got me a MacBook Air, which now means I will be able to blog more and make many more videos for our YouTube Channel. Since I work at my desk all day I just can’t stand to sit there for a second longer than necessary to work on the Mac desktop that we have.

The kids were all spoiled as usual.

Andrew

Blake

Chase

Karli
She also made a What I got for Christmas Video, it’s all the rage on YouTube.
Her blog post is here.

Our elf, Clyde, also wrote the kids a letter before he left on Christmas Eve. If you click on it, you can view it larger.

We had a wonderful Christmas with our kids, both sets of grandparents and my grandma Mille. It goes by too fast as always. Our tree only has one more day before it gets moved back into storage. Soon the house will be back to normal. Kids back to school. Here we come 2014.

We didn’t send out cards this year so consider this your Christmas card!

I know some of you probably thought we took you off our card list since I always send out cards. But nope, just wasn’t feeling it this year. The internet pretty much keeps all of you updated and you see plenty of photos of us throughout the year.

Thank goodness the photos even turned out. We had enough time for one photo right before Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and fingers crossed that we ended up with something presentable. I would have got yelled at by Ken to hurry up if I would have tried to take anymore than that. We are all always getting yelled at before church. If you think about it, church is one of the few things that we go to as a complete family where we really have to be there at a specific time. Must be why I whine about going to church most of the time. I enjoy mass while I’m there, but boy do I hate the process of getting there. Plus you can’t wear sweats.

Rest of our photos will be coming shortly :)

So how was your Christmas?