The Official Christmas Recap

Well, another year has come to a close. Every year around this time, I sort of go into 'Christmas Mourning'. It's a lot different than 'Christmas Morning' when all the presents are distributed. I love Christmas. There's just something about it that you don't get the rest of the year. Everyone is a little nicer, a little more patient... and a little more ANNOYING if you're at Wal-Mart.
But, I digress...

We decided we'd take our children to the lights and to see Santa. We made all the necessary preparations and bundled the kids in warm clothes. But first, we would make them sweat it out in their warm clothes and go out to dinner. Of course, right as we were leaving, Faith decided to dump an entire glass of icy cold water all over her clothes. Thus ended the idea of having her see Santa. But luckily for Levi, he still got to go. And me? I stayed in the car trying my hardest to entertain Faith while she bawled and said 'Dad-duh' the entire time. You see, HE is the favorite right now. And when I say 'Favorite', what I mean is that Faith is down right obsessed with her Dad. Which... isn't entirely a bad thing when he comes home if you know what I mean.


Here's Levi with Santa. John said that although Santa looked the part, he was a REAL dud with zero personality and didn't even ask what Levi wanted. Thanks a lot, dull Santa.


Next, there were loads upon LOADS of Christmas parties and festivities.
BEST. YEAR. EVER.
There was also some really angry gift opening on my part, apparently.


And you'll never guess what I got...
A new 21 1/2 inch COMPUTER MONITOR. The picture just doesn't do it justice. I'm truly in love. Hey, I might even take up blogging again and get out of my rut.
But no promises.



This is one of my favorite moments. Faith was being so cute with my brother, Clark. She has a thing for him. There are really only a few people she'll give the time of day to lately. The less you act like you want to hold her, the better. She might actually smile for you if you ignore her.

My mom just got back from a three week trip to Australia. She has wanted to go there for as long as I can remember. Her sister (my aunt) lives there and has raised all her children there. Lucky for us, they visit once a year or so. But unfortunately for them, we HAVEN'T. My mom had a great time and brought back gifts for everyone.
Levi got a 'Bushman' hat (though I'm sure that's not the OFFICIAL name), the guys got real AUTHENTIC kangaroo scrotum sacs. Yup. You read that right. SCROTUM SACS. I think every joke in the book was told about those things.
Such as: "Do these only hold two things?"
"One side is hanging down lower than the other"
and so on... and so forth...
Faith got a cute little stuffed Koala...


And me???
I got Australian candy. You KNOW you're jealous.


Rather than dreaming of sugarplums dancing in my head, I'll be dreaming of a Violet Crumble and Tim Tams. Because you know what? They're gone.
Just. Like. Christmas.



The Sunday before Christmas, I forgot to take pictures of the cute kids. So today I made them both wear Christmas outfits AGAIN and I set them down for what was sure to be the cutest Christmas photo EVER with the two of them in their Sunday best.

Here's what I got:
Try NUMBER ONE


TRY NUMBER TWO. Yes, Levi... smiling while pulling on Faith's dress to get her to stay really IS helpful. Thank-You.


Try NUMBER THREE:
This is as good as it gets, folks.

I hope you all had as Merry a Christmas as we did!!!