The kids didn't get anything extravagant, but they got pretty much everything on their lists and I think they enjoyed it. We decided to not rush Christmas this year by trying to run too many places and stayed home on Christmas Eve. We went to mass, which lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. I think it almost killed Jaemin. He was really struggling to control himself for so long. He just kept asking how many songs were left, but they sang everything at this church, so he counted everything.
We came home and made their favorite snack food Christmas. We had smokies, shrimp, wings, donuts, cinnamon rolls and whatever else. Each one got to pick a food for us to buy. Then we watched Elf for a bit. They opened all their presents and just played the rest of the night. Jaemin was pretty excited Santa would bring him a Pororo table from Korea. And he really liked the Monster Truck Great Grandma W got him. Cole was pretty practical this year and got lots of things for hunting, his car, etc. Chase has a drawer full of hoodies now, so he should be in good shape. Kaelin is full up on clothes and accessories. Chelsi got tons of shoes and finally got a boy doll for her Barbies. She now has Rapunzel and Flynn Rider. I actually got a present this year. Brian saw my mirror that had broken a few years ago and got me a brand new mirror. Just a simple little hand mirror, but I finally got a new one. All in all I averaged out to my budget of $100 per kid. I tried to work as many ebates, Kohls cash or whatever reward I could find into everything. So after Christmas, I should have a decent little check coming.
I think they're all worn out now....just fairly quietly playing Wii. We did do what a coworker told me to try. We put no labels on the gifts from mom and dad and they each just opened a gift and had to decide who's gift it really went to. Fairly easy until we got to hair accessories. We got it though. You can tell from some of their faces, these were not their gifts. :)
Here are their own gifts.
And each other's gifts.
Then they played.
We got to go to both of their grandma's houses on Christmas Day and cousin E and uncle B came in from NY.
The pictures of E and grandma kissing cracked me up. He started out smiling in the one and then looked at her out of the corner of his eyes.
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