Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas 2011: Christmas Eve at Bri’s

Once we made a quick pitstop at Grammie’s to drop off luggage, gifts, and dogs, we headed to Bri’s for Christmas Eve / Christmas / the McHusband’s birthday.

With all the toys at Bri’s house, Olivia was most interested in emptying a box.  Being the first kid, I was spoiled with lots of toys but my mom says my favorite thing to do was drop clothespins into a gallon milkjug.  So Olivia comes by her box obsession honestly.

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Meanwhile, Owen and Lyla, with a little help from Aunt Steph, were decorating cookies for Santa.

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They obviously have the most important step in baking down pat.

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Time for sprinkles!

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Taste-testing for Santa.

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Bri made a peanut butter-chocolate molten cake for the McHusband’s birthday.  I helped with separating the eggs.

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In the oven, getting all molten-ized.

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Later, we sang Happy Birthday.

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And had platefuls of gooey deliciousness.

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In between the sweets, we played outside and opened gifts.

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Testing the limits of the swingset.

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Did someone say presents?!

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Believe me when I say this was the calm before the storm.

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I don’t remember what was going on for Lyla to make this face but it would seem she was very concerned.

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Blowing up Lyla’s whoopee cushion.  That thing was a hit!

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The kids helped Maxie open her gift.  As you can see, she was quite happy with what she got.

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Olivia was a big fan of packaging as well.

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My mom made these paper wreaths for Bri and me.  They are made out of book pages.  How cool are they?!

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Guess what else my mom made?  These “horses” for Owen and Lyla.  Owen’s a little unsure of what’s going on, but look at Lyla’s face; she zeroes in on that pink fluffy horse.

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Off to the races!

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The aftermath of Hurricane Christmas.

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Christmas with three-year-olds is fun, exhausting, exciting, a test of your patience, and over much more quickly than in the past couple of years since they tear through their own gifts – and any others they can get their hands on – in no time.

Hope you aren’t tired of kids and gifts yet – we still have Christmas at Grammie’s to recap.

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