We decided to have our Christmas on Christmas Eve so that we would not have to wake the kids at 5 am in order for Joe to be there. We started with a scavenger hunt for the family gift. While Joe and ALL of the kids were napping (Christmas miracle??) I hid clues for them to find the gift. It was a fun activity and hopefully we can continue that tradition. Everything was pretty low key and even though everyone pretty much kept to the minimum for the kid's gifts they still got more then any kid would ever need. Porter was so funny because every single gift he received was the...greatest...gift...ever. I have never seen him so excited over shoes! Adlee surprised me by being a diva (why does that surprise me?) She needs to work on being grateful. Hudson got a ride on four wheeler as his first present and nothing else mattered all night or the next day but his smile never went away.
We are now waiting for Joe to get home so that we can head out to my aunt and uncles for Christmas dinner. Having Christmas with more family then my mom and Charlie is a pretty big deal for us!
I will leave you with a few pictures. This will have to do for our Christmas card this year because with everything else going on I never got around to sending any out.
The day before we moved out our computer hard drive crashed and so far we have not been able to recover it. Thank goodness I have some of our most important pictures/events recorded on this blog because I just might have lost all of them.
I told you they just woke up from a nap, right?
Our Christmas Eve picture
Christmas morning
We seriously took 30+ pictures and did not come out with one in which we are all looking at the camera. Here is the best of the worst.
On top of everything else going on we also have this.....
I have spent the last 14 weeks feeling queasier then I did with all three pregnancies combined. This is the very last baby that we will be having. I am trying to enjoy the last time I will be doing this but it has been tough.Merry Christmas and Happy 2012 to everyone!
