Our Christmas this past year was kind of in "spurts" at least as far as opening presents. The Friday before Christmas was the last day of school and work for Kaelyn and Kevin. We were originally going to try to be ready to leave by the next day but between Kevin and I battling the flu for so long, we were short on energy and behind on things. So Friday night, we lazed around and opened 3 or 4 presents. Saturday, we started working on some packing and cleaning and then we spent the evening watching Little House on the Prairie Christmas episodes. We ended up leaving Sunday evening and getting just a few hours up the road before we stopped for the night.
Kay opening an Annoying Orange dart game.
Kev and Kay goofing off about one of Kevin's presents. I was frustrated that the picture turned out blurry (as so many pictures I take turn out because my hands are shaky so often when I go to take pictures) but I wanted to keep it and share it anyway because I thought it was funny/cute.
She's growing up so fast!
We got Kaelyn a dollhouse for Christmas. Since we were taking most of our presents with us to open on Christmas day (and at stops along the way on our trip to help with the MANY hours on the trip), we had to open a couple bigger ones before we left.
These pictures aren't exactly in chronological order I guess. These next few were from sometime a bit earlier in December.
Santa Mickey sugar cookies..and milk...on festive seasonal paperware. :-)
Angry birds - a new ornament for Kay's little tree this year.
A Christmas shopping trip to the mall. Kaelyn had no interest in seeing the big, jolly guy there but she very much enjoyed riding the train set up next to him.
The big tree in the middle of the mall.
For years now, I have tried to get Kaelyn interested in wrapping presents. It has apparently never "clicked" with her what we are doing and she loses interest after 2 or 3 minutes. When she saw me wrapping presents this year, she was curious and she said, "How are you going to turn those things into presents?" I guess it has never dawned on her how wrapping things worked. She was very interested in the "process" and even wanted to help. As I posted on Facebook back around that time, the best part of having a seven-year-old girl helping wrap presents, is that one of Kevin's presents was wrapped in pretty, pink princess wrapping paper with a big gold bow and a name tag (almost as big as the present itself) that said "NO PEEKING". :-)
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