Christmas 2013

Like most holidays, we didn't celebrate on the actual calendar date for Christmas this year. We had our little Christmas on December 22 with Nate, Kate and me and Paw-Paw and Lady on FaceTime watching the whole time. (We tried calling Daddy, but he didn't answer so Nate asked if we could call Paw-Paw and Lady to watch.) Here they are getting to open one gift on their "Christmas Eve (Dec. 21)." You can tell they weren't happy about the fact that they had to share the gift and I got to choose which gift. They asked to rent Despicable Me from the Red Box as we were leaving Walmart, but I told them no because that's what this gift was.

 Excited on Christmas morning.

Let the gift opening begin...

It's always fun to throw a gift in there that they're going to hate just to watch their excitement completely fade for a minute. Toothbrush

Good gift.

Last, but not least, the big gift.

I put this gift together a week prior to them opening it and threw a table cloth over it and told them it was a table to put Mack's sweaters on and they never mentioned it after that.

An air hockey and ping pong table. So much fun!

I got a lot of pictures of Kathryn enjoying her gifts, but not many of Nate. He ran upstairs to play his new video games as soon as we finished opening gifts. I don't think I saw him for about 2 hours after that.

Kathryn couldn't wait to open each one of her gifts and play with them.

She even opened Nate's gifts and had me put his stuff together.

We tried out ping pong. She's a ping pong princess.

When the festivities were over I took the tree down because we were leaving to go to Paw-Paw and Lady's house the next day and I didn't want to come home and have to take it down. I hate taking the tree down. It especially sucks when I have to do it all. (Kathryn took about 30 pictures of me on her new iPad as I struggled to get this giant tree packed up and taken out to the garage.

I let the kids decide where they wanted to go for our Christmas meal together. You can't go wrong with Waffle House for Christmas dinner!

That was our first Christmas celebration. More to come!