On Christmas Eve, we went to Mom and Dad Holbrook's house for dinner. It was a quiet dinner; aside from the kids who actually live in the house, we were the only ones there for dinner. My in-laws scheduled a different time to see each of the families and didn't host a big Christmas event because of covid, and we ended up with Christmas Eve. It was nice. We opened presents from them after that, and we had a good time.
Our scripture study that night with the kids was reading the Christmas story from Luke to them.
And, as per tradition, Daniel and I stayed up late that night wrapping presents and other things, while watching Scrooge. It was perfect! Sometime after we were done, Jack woke up late at night crying (probably a bad dream) and woke up Camille, who had a present from Santa (a cup holder that hangs on the side of her bed -- which she explicitly asked Santa for) on her bed. She got all excited, that Santa had already been to our house. Daniel and I were worried that she'd have a hard time going back to sleep. But we told them to go to sleep, and we didn't hear from either of them again until morning.
Christmas Day was lovely. It was slow and relaxed and fun. We woke up sometime during the 7 o'clock hour. Brooke woke up first and got a chance to sneak and peak at all the stuff before coming upstairs. We ended up having to wake up Camille after all the other kids were awake for a little while.
They were so excited to go downstairs to see what Santa brought. They loved going through their stockings. But Jack was especially excited about the big red pickup truck that we'd gotten him and just left next to the tree. It was fun to see him so excited!
It took us all day to open presents. Not because there was so much to open, but because someone would open a present and then we'd all stop to look at it and play with it. Mom and dad gave the kids some sand art kit, and we stopped all things to do some sand art together. It was like that all day. We had a lot of fun, though! It was relaxing and slow.
My big gift this year was a new bike, which I'm very excited about. I'd like to do more bikerides with the kids this summer. The bike Daniel got me is a little too big, so we need to exchange it for the right size. But it's really nice. Smooth and light, and I love it! I took it outside for 5 minutes or so to test it out, and I think that was the only time any of us was outside.
Daniel's big gift was a smart fitness watch. And he loves it!
Brooke was cute. We got her a watch for Christmas, something she's been asking for for at least a year. She was overjoyed to get a watch, and she thought it was so cool that dad got a watch too. After she opened her watch and the book set we got her, and the snow boots she wanted, she opened a bigger gift from us -- a Spirit doll set. She and Camille were really into the TV show "spirit" and this set included Spirit (the main horse), a colt and the main girl in the show, with a stable and accessories. It was pretty big, overall. When she opened it, she was thrilled and kept saying how she felt so spoiled and that it must've been expensive, etc. It was adorable. She loved it, and I could tell she was grateful.
I made a fancy-ish Christmas dinner -- my favorite lasagna, salad, special drink, etc -- and we all sat down to eat. Then, after putting the boys to bed, we stayed up late playing monopoly with Brooke. Camille watched for a bit; but she wasn't too interested in the actual workings of the game. She liked playing with the money, though. 😂 What kid doesn't? We played til about 10:30, when Brooke went bankrupt and we just ended the game to put her to bed.
It was such a fun Christmas!
PS: Sawyer was 7 months old on December 21st. ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ This year is going by too fast! But he IS the cutest little reindeer I ever did see!
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