Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

I hope you are all having a fabulous Christmas day! Ours has been entertaining as ever. (Is anything ever not entertaining in my house? Well, yes, when the kids take to coloring on things other than paper - closet doors, walls, floors, coloring themselves with a sharpie...that's not really entertaining.) I hope Santa was good to you. (He was very good to me - $$ and Coach...what more could I ask for?? .....a maid...that's what I should have asked for. Crap!!))

Our festivities started last night really. We usually spend Christmas Eve having a family night. (I love it!) Last night we watched Elf (not my first choice in holiday movies but we were seriously lacking in choices so it would have to do) and had hot chocolate with Christmas colored marshmallows and some festive-type brownies (well, they were brownies with sprinkles on them lol). It was awesome. When all was said and done, the kids made a special plate for Santa with our festive-type brownies and some celery for the reindeers, said goodbye to Pinky (our Elf on the Shelf) and headed to bed, to not go to sleep.

Once we (finally) got the kids to bed, Brian and I set out getting the last of the presents wrapped and setting up the living room.

When that was all done it was almost midnight and I was utterly exhausted. However, not exhausted enough to go to bed. Of course not. Because I will never learn that I will require more than 3-4 hours of sleep the night before a holiday. Instead. Brian and I went to work setting up a maze of crepe paper in the upstairs hallway. My dear sweet Kierstin informed me that no matter what we did, they would find a way to sneak downstairs before we were awake. And my response? "Is that a challenge? Well alright then. Let's do this."

Challenge accepted. Challenge won.

We spent a good 45 minutes setting this up all over the upstairs (with a clear path for us, of course). And to up the ante a little, I left a note telling them they weren't allowed to come downstairs until they get through it with knocking down or tearing any of the paper, or else.....(lol). To their credit, it took them an hour but they made it with all 35 pieces of crepe paper intact and still attached to the wall, and were still downstairs before 6:30 (Brian and I were awake by then though. They're crazy antics woke us up quite early.

The rest of the day passed so quickly it was ridiculous. But it was wonderful. Well, except that Santa was foolish enough to get Makenzie a Furby Boom. Google that - you might be as disturbed by it as I am. It responds to you, laughs, sings, snores and...has gas. (yeah.) After watching it for several hours I'm pretty sure that thing is evil incarnate and is going to come alive in the middle of the night and terrorize me in my sleep.

But that's not festive at all. Sorry about that. (I really am kind of scared of it though.)

Anyway, we hope you are all having a wonderfully Merry Christmas!! We miss everyone so much!

All our love!