Ellie climbing on Uncle John
Riley checking out one of his gifts
Ellie and her new doll from the Severns'
Rorey, Riley, Ellie and Teresa checking out the stockings
Thacker cousins at Nana's house
Christmas Eve ..Rorey, Ellie and Daddy
Christmas was on the back burner around here this year, as has been this blog if you didn't notice! LOL! We are still trying to adjust to our new family dynamics, and I just was not in the holiday spirit!! Apparently Ellie has never heard of Christmas....she stared at us like we had lost our minds when we drug the huge Christmas tree bag up from the basement and started putting a tree up in the middle of the living room!! We did get some baking done, which Ellie enjoyed helping with. (and eating) Rorey, Ellie and I also made a gingerbread house, which they loved. But they got really mad when I threw it away and wouldn't let them eat it!! We decided to spend the night at my parents house on Christmas eve, so we could be there for the family soup supper and then go to church that evening. Ellie is so funny because she LOVES to sing! She knows several songs in Chinese and now she knows Jesus loves me and Jingle bells in English! But at church on Christmas eve we were singing lots of songs that she does not know, and she didn't care she was still singing along ....really loudly.... in her half English half Chinese mumbo jumbo talk!! People were looking at us. She was that loud. So Santa had to find us at Nana and Papa's house, which of course he could easily do. All of the kids got way to many presents and had lots of fun opening all of them. We had Christmas dinner for my mothers whole family at her house, people came and went for lunch, and desserts, and then dinner (yuck, who can eat again?) We had to come home Christmas day evening because I had to work the next day. When we got home I realized the kids hadn't opened the presents from Rick and I!! I'm so mean I made them wait until Saturday morning.. we had our own little Christmas morning!! Then Sunday morning we got up and made our way to Rick's parent's house for Christmas with his family! These have got to be the three most spoiled children I have ever seen!! We had a nice day and the kids got even more presents from Nana and Papa Severns, Aunt Debbie and Aunt Teresa!! WOW it looks like a toy store threw up in this house!! Where in the world are we going to put all of this?? It is time for some serious cleaning!! Luckily Rick's Mom offered to take some toys to her house for the kids to play with when they go to visit them. I'm definately going to take her up on that offer. So that is our Christmas in a nutshell!! Nothing crazy, no dramatic moments, just Ellie looking at us like we were totally out of our heads.
Ellie climbing on Uncle John
Riley checking out one of his gifts
Ellie and her new doll from the Severns'
Rorey, Riley, Ellie and Teresa checking out the stockings
Thacker cousins at Nana's house
Christmas Eve ..Rorey, Ellie and Daddy
Christmas was on the back burner around here this year, as has been this blog if you didn't notice! LOL! We are still trying to adjust to our new family dynamics, and I just was not in the holiday spirit!! Apparently Ellie has never heard of Christmas....she stared at us like we had lost our minds when we drug the huge Christmas tree bag up from the basement and started putting a tree up in the middle of the living room!! We did get some baking done, which Ellie enjoyed helping with. (and eating) Rorey, Ellie and I also made a gingerbread house, which they loved. But they got really mad when I threw it away and wouldn't let them eat it!! We decided to spend the night at my parents house on Christmas eve, so we could be there for the family soup supper and then go to church that evening. Ellie is so funny because she LOVES to sing! She knows several songs in Chinese and now she knows Jesus loves me and Jingle bells in English! But at church on Christmas eve we were singing lots of songs that she does not know, and she didn't care she was still singing along ....really loudly.... in her half English half Chinese mumbo jumbo talk!! People were looking at us. She was that loud. So Santa had to find us at Nana and Papa's house, which of course he could easily do. All of the kids got way to many presents and had lots of fun opening all of them. We had Christmas dinner for my mothers whole family at her house, people came and went for lunch, and desserts, and then dinner (yuck, who can eat again?) We had to come home Christmas day evening because I had to work the next day. When we got home I realized the kids hadn't opened the presents from Rick and I!! I'm so mean I made them wait until Saturday morning.. we had our own little Christmas morning!! Then Sunday morning we got up and made our way to Rick's parent's house for Christmas with his family! These have got to be the three most spoiled children I have ever seen!! We had a nice day and the kids got even more presents from Nana and Papa Severns, Aunt Debbie and Aunt Teresa!! WOW it looks like a toy store threw up in this house!! Where in the world are we going to put all of this?? It is time for some serious cleaning!! Luckily Rick's Mom offered to take some toys to her house for the kids to play with when they go to visit them. I'm definately going to take her up on that offer. So that is our Christmas in a nutshell!! Nothing crazy, no dramatic moments, just Ellie looking at us like we were totally out of our heads.
1 comment:
Good to hear from you! Sounds like a wonderful Christmas!! Hope the adjusting is going well! We also are continuing to adjust. Work in progress, right??
Glad all is well!
Big Hugs!
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