This year Paul & I decided to do the '12 Days of Christmas' to a family of 8, with the aid of my sister Kelsey. We used some of our Christmas budgets on that instead of each other. It was SO fun!! The children were trying to catch us, so it made drop-offs very exciting. I got a picture of Kelsey on Christmas Eve, preparing for the trip:
This year Alec found some gifts from Paul's family and tore into one before I could stop him, but we really liked the idea of spreading out the fun, so we started the '7 Nights of Christmas', letting him open a gift each night. Here he is Christmas Eve enjoying his latest 'choo choo' and his Christmas Eve PJ's from Nana:
My Uncle takes great pleasure in finding the noisiest things possible for Alec, so this Christmas (Eve) he got a loud book:
The highlight of Christmas morning was Alec's 'ride on' Thomas from his Granny and Grandad who bought it for him when they were over visiting back in October:
It was so fun this year. Christmas is definitely better with children!
In the evening we went to my brother, Christopher's for dinner and some games.
Afterwards, Paul and I got to go see a movie. I'd been pretty excited for
Marley & Me and was not disappointed. I cried through a lot of the movie, but it was great! I highly recommend it, but bring a tissue. Paul's very picky about movies and he liked it too (this is the 4th film I saw at the cinema this year, we only go if we really want to see it these days).
This year Alec found some gifts from Paul's family and tore into one before I could stop him, but we really liked the idea of spreading out the fun, so we started the '7 Nights of Christmas', letting him open a gift each night. Here he is Christmas Eve enjoying his latest 'choo choo' and his Christmas Eve PJ's from Nana:
My Uncle takes great pleasure in finding the noisiest things possible for Alec, so this Christmas (Eve) he got a loud book:
The highlight of Christmas morning was Alec's 'ride on' Thomas from his Granny and Grandad who bought it for him when they were over visiting back in October:
It was so fun this year. Christmas is definitely better with children!
In the evening we went to my brother, Christopher's for dinner and some games.
Afterwards, Paul and I got to go see a movie. I'd been pretty excited for Marley & Me and was not disappointed. I cried through a lot of the movie, but it was great! I highly recommend it, but bring a tissue. Paul's very picky about movies and he liked it too (this is the 4th film I saw at the cinema this year, we only go if we really want to see it these days).
4 comments:
Oh my goodness, he's so stinkin' cute! The train is adorable!
Oh goodness, I bet he's gonna have a stinkin good time on that thing.
Great pictures! I heard all about the book and about how much Alec enjoyed it! Glad you guys had a good christmas!
Wow trains galore! Alec's got his very own fairground ride - fun. :o)
Isn't it fun doing secret Christmas things? Our Christmasses wouldn't be the same without them. I think it's what makes it special for all of us now. We found out recently that last year stands out as everbody's best Christmas because it was all focused on secret giving - fun! It was hard this year being so ill and not knowing where people live around our new area yet, but we still managed it. It just wouldn't have been Christmas otherwise! I hope you all had LOTS of fun doing it.
Thanks for putting things on here regularly. It's great to hear about and see pictures of your lovely family. Love you! xxx
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