So, this year for Christmas I basically decided that I was NOT going to host a big hoo ha since it usualy takes a lot out of me AND I did Thanksgiving. However, we still ended up having people over at our house since everyone wanted to see the kids. I picked my grandmother up on Friday and she spent the week with us. Christmas is usually a hard time for our family since my aunt died Christmas morning several years ago and it's also another year without my uncle Eddie and it's the first year that we are celebrating without my sister since she converted. I tried my best to keep her spirits up about it which backfired on me, because I could barely keep mine up! But my boys made it all better for everyone! :)Christmas Eve afternoon, we went to my moms house for lunch and gifts. My brothers and I went in on a new digital camera for my mom, so that was a big deal... My mom got me a sound machine, which I have wanted since Caleb was born! Marcus got a book called Weird Virginia which he thought was pretty cool and the boys got all sorts of books and toys. From my moms, we went to Marcus's moms house for dinner and we had agreed on not exchanging gifts, but the boys of course got a whole new wardrobe from Oma! :)Later we went to sing Christmas Carols in Leesburg, which wasn't as fun as I had thought it would be... We got home and set out the milk and cookies for Santa and then the boys went to bed. I drove out to pick up my youngest sister (because my dad came down with something last minute) and then got home to get Santa's things in place. This is what our basement looked like after I got done:
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