The Wrighting on the Wall: I'm Back! Boy, I have LOTS to say!

Well, after a short holiday bloggy break, I am back with some fond Christmas memories. We are blessed as a family to live fairly close to both sides of our family. That equates to almost 3 full days of Christmas to be enjoyed by the kids (OK, and Scott and I) so that everyone has their fair share of the holiday.

It all started on Christmas Eve Eve, with service at our church, and then a great dinner and some pre-present opening...you know, for the gifts you must have before you can even open the other gifts...Then on Christmas Eve Morning, we met up with the Other Wright's for a yummy breakfast and another gift exchange because, sadly, we would not be with them this Christmas.

From breakfast, we went out to my parent's house for my side of the family's celebration. It was an all day event with chili for lunch, games, gifts, a traditional turkey dinner, and then more gifts. The kids had a blast (as did the adults) playing with cousins and hanging out all day. Surprisingly enough, they even all went down for rest time! Pax got all snugly in my mom's closet where we had laid a crib mattress on the floor. He LOVED it...we convinced him it was the "special room".

Christmas morning came very quickly after being up late, and the kids were thrilled to see Santa had arrived with gifts. We hung out just the four of us for a bit in the morning, sang Happy Birthday to Jesus, had Birthday cake for breakfast (OK, it was a butter braid (which both children hated?)), and opened more gifts. Pax got his long awaited for Buzz and Woody dolls...oops I mean "action figures", and Lanes got a few Magic School Bus experiment kits as well as books and DVD's. We headed over to the Wright family house to spend the rest of our snowy Christmas day hanging out, eating soup and left-overs, playing Wii, watching tube, and, you guessed it, opening more gifts! It was a wonderful relaxing day.

Here are some favorite lines/memories/pictures:

1. Upon opening his first gift of Christmas (which just happened to be Car's Jammies), my boy let out a squeal that, some might say, sounded like a school-girl. It was loud enough, and at a pitch that it caught every one's attention and all action/talk/noise pretty much everything came to a halt while we all tried to determine if it was Pax making that noise or if there was a squealing piglet that was brought into the house.

2. Out of all the fun things my kids had in their stockings, they loved the little pillows that I bought last minute thinking "these might be cute, and if they don't like them, no big deal...we'll just get rid of them". If you ask them what Santa brought, that is what they both will tell you. Forget the fact that Pax got a bike, and Lanie a Click Start computer...NOPE! Santa brought them pillows!

3. Pax is in LOVE with his Buzz and Woody dolls...action figures...whatever. In fact since he has gotten them, he has spent his days saying things like "Howdy, Ma'am!, Howdy, howdy, howdy, Howdy partner!", and "Watch out while I shoot my waser." Along with that, he has also been heard saying, "Where's my Woody?, I am playing with my Woody", and "Do you see my Woody?".

Yes, folks we are all dying of laughter, and the kids cannot figure out why.

Here are some pics of the joyous days:

Delanie with "the pillow"