Merry Christmas 2008

Umple Eddie was telling us that his childhood with Santa Claus and Christmas ended upbruptly when he woke up for christmas to discover that the gifts under the tree included clothes and some dreaded flash cards. The first picture is of Jimmy with flash cards.....poor Jimmy.....it got better for him.

Jack showing his Italian side

Unfortunately for me I had to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. The eve was moved over to Kara's this year instead of our house because of the damage in the backyard room. On Christmas day we went over uncle Patrick's house and were going to head over to Karas. Well, we got a call when we were on the way to Patricks house from Kara saying she had no power at her house so Lyn ended up hosting Christmas for her side of the family.

On Christmas morning Jimmy woke up up first and then the rest of them followed and were soooo excited about finding all the gifts. Catherine kept holding things up and saying that the gift she opened was just what she wanted. She got a new American Girl Doll. Laura got a bunch of girlie gifts, Jimmy at first opened the "crap" but then did all right with a bunch of wii games and a new DS. Jack was awesome. He reminded me so much of when Catherine was his age and would just stare at the gifts for a long time. He got tons of Thomas the train stuff and he would yell "tommy" every time he would open one. He was very cute to watch opening his gifts.

The next day was spent putting together a bunch of them and having them play with every gift one after another.

It was a great Christmas with plenty of drama, as usual.