And what a magical Christmas it was.
Christmas Eve morning the boys got to open their gifts from each other.
Wes was so excited for his gift and Oliver seemed to enjoy his as well.
Well... he did like the paper better.
We headed off to mom's to watch some Toy Story 3 that the boys got from Ariel and eat some finger foods and open gifts.
Once the sunset and the stars were peaking out we headed out to check out some Christmas lights on houses, 3D snowflake glasses in hand.
There were lots of Oooowww'ing & Aaaaahhhh'ing and lots and lots of Christmas carols being sung, mostly by me and mom, at the top of our lungs!
We got home and were all pretty tired but we did stay up long enough to open just a couple more presents.
Wes has the best surprised face lol.
Wesley NEVER puts up a fight to go to bed. 10pm on the dot he knows it's bed time and always goes down easy. Every now and then he'll get up after only a couple minutes and say he can't sleep but I take him back in his room, give him extra lovin's and he's out... not that night.
We put him in our bed so that when he woke up we would too. We refused to let him wake up and go in the living room without us. After about 30mins of fighting with him he FINALLY gave in and went to bed with Charlie who fell asleep too.
While they were asleep I went ahead and made Charlie's stocking and woke him up.
He got my stocking ready while I put together the boys and then.... the real 'fun' began.
We had to put together their new train table which took way longer then we expected, and while Charlie was getting the pieces all ready I started blowing up the ball pit/bouncy. We finally got the ball pit blown and and had a mini panic attack when we saw how BIG it was! In "Charlie land" he say that it was 4ft wide... turns out to be more like 6! We did not think it was going to work and we were going to have to return it. We decided to finish putting up the table and just see if there was any way to save it... Charlie REALLY wanted to be able to keep it. We got the table all finished and did lots of furniture moving and purging and finally figured out the perfect layout for the room.
Let's just say that room could never be mistaken for anything other then a playroom!
We didn't get done until after 2am! And I never got to sleep until around 3, and kept waking up.
I finally just decided to get up around 8 when I heard Oliver and mom in the living room.
I walk around the corner into the dining room where the tree and gifts were all set up and see this...
Apparently he woke up early just so he could play with the presents first!
And he was having a blast!
I got tired of waiting up for Wes and went and woke up him and Charlie.
At first he was pretty groggy and wasn't wanting to wake up, but after hearing that Santa had some a couple of time he was up and ready to go.
First thing he saw?
Maw Maw.
And he was SO excited she was there.
Second?
Presents!!!
Batman Cave!
He sat and stared for a while... taking it all in.
Then we dug into the rest of the gifts from us.
Everyone got totally spoiled.
Mom a new diamond necklace.
Charlie his fav bottles of alcohol and a steering wheel/ foot pedals & 3D glasses for playing games on the computer.
And me... well I got a lot too! Including a Zebra snuggie, some awesome crystal Zebra earrings and a purse all picked out by my hubby all on his own.
But my FAVORITE presents were a tie between my Pier 1 cupcake cookie jar I've been wanting for.ev.er., it seriously brought a tear to my eye I was so excited when I opened it! I never would have thought Charlie would have remembered. And my book light, which I've gotten lots of use out of already.
My husband out did himself.
After all the gifts were opened we asked Wes to go put some of his toys in the playroom.
I ran in ahead.
I'm sure he was wondering why we were already having him put away his toys...
He walked in, and well, his face says it all
He kept saying "it's the train I wanted!!!" and ran straight to the table and started playing.
Then he dove in the ball pit and went to town with Oliver who LOVES the ball pit.
We had an amazing dinner cooked by your's truly.
It included
Green Bean Casserole
Spiral Ham
Corn
Rice
Gravy
Stuffing
Baked Mac-n-cheese
And for dessert my wonderful husband had gotten me and Chocolate chip pecan pie from Cracker Barrel. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm my favorite!
We were all completely stuffed and happy and having so much fun together.
Oliver played his little heart out.
Seriously he played for hours and hours until he finally passed out for a long nap.
Wes ran from room to room playing with different things and stopping every now and then to watch Charlie play the DS or a racing game on the computer.
I really don't think our Christmas could have been any more perfect. Any more special.
It was our 1st as a family of 4 and it was awesome.
Happy New Year!
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