Texas Andersons

What a wonderful holiday- celebrating food, friends, family… Christmas!

Monday was Ben’s first official day off from school.  We spent the day playing out at the lot and then came home for movie night.  Dinner, popcorn, frozen hot chocolate and The Polar Express made for a wonderful date with my boys.

On Tuesday we played in the backyard and took Evan to his gymnastics class.

On Wednesday, I took Ben and Evan to The Children’s Museum where we spent a few hours playing.  And that night I gave the boys their Christmas gift from me- an awesome weather station that measures the temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, and more.  Ben and Nathan were both very excited.

Larry, Debbie, and Jenny arrived Thursday afternoon for Christmas Eve celebrating at our house.  We opened gifts amidst screams, squeals, and jumpings for joy!!!  Then, when my parents arrived, we ate a wonderful dinner and opened even more gifts.  We received lots of great presents from everyone (cd’s, dvd’s, tools, toy shopping cart, toy dump truck, books, etc).  But the “awesome” award went to the wii and all of the games and accessories we got to go with it.

When we woke up yesterday morning, we found a few little gifts in our stockings and a big gift in the middle of the living room- a Power Wheels John Deere tractor!!!  (Thanks Santa)  Then we headed to Orange Grove to spend Christmas Day with my grandparents and family.  We stuffed ourselves again with a delicious lunch, everyone opened gifts, and then we spent the day visiting and playing. All the kids were excited to get Zhu Zhu Pets, Nerf guns, and toy John Deere tractors.  And Ben and Evan also got an r/c bus, more wii games, and construction tractors.

Today we spent a few hours getting more acquainted with the wii and then headed out to the lot with the Power Wheels.  The boys drove it around the lot, helping us move more rocks (even Evan learned how to drive it!).  And we spent time on the swing and playground and had a blast on the trampoline.

Thank you to everyone who spent the holiday with us, for making this Christmas so special and for all the wonderful gifts.  We hope all you ladies are enjoying your jewelry from us (I had such a fun time shopping for all of the necklaces!).  Merry Christmas to all who we didn’t get to see this week.  We hope your holiday was merry and bright.  And we wish you all a very joyous 2010.

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