We have plenty of snow on the ground and it continues to snow. When will it stop? It is pretty to look at, but I need a break from shoveling the walkways and cleaning off the cars. With all the snow we got yesterday, we decided to stay inside all day once we got home and not go anywhere. We are planning to venture out later to return a few presents that we got duplicates of.
Christmas Day was spent at Kevin's parents house. Kileigh woke up around 7:30 and we went out in the living room to find even more presents under and around the tree than when we went to bed. There was a sled waiting for Kileigh. She got one from my parents last weekend and loved being pulled around in the snow in it. So with her new sled, she climbed in it and I pulled her around the house in it. I think she was ready to open her presents because she went into Grandma and Grandpa's room to wake them up. Shortly after that, she came back and then Grandpa made coffee. While we were waiting for Kevin's Aunt Joy to come down from Wisconsin, Kileigh decided she wanted to open a couple presents, which happened to be birthstone ornaments for the 3 of us. She also pulled the tissue paper out of a bag to discover some animal hand puppets. She seemed to like the turtle the best. I think daddy and grandpa had more fun playing with them than Kileigh did. We had some breakfast and waited for Aunt Joy to arrive.
She got there around 11:30 and then shortly after that we started opening presents. It was after 1 when we finished. Kileigh got a bunch of clothes, some books, a couple cell phones that are voice activated, a musical camera, a busy ball popper, a bouncing turtle, and a few disney movies on blu ray (Cars, Snow White, and Up). Of course we had to open all of Kileigh's toys and some needed batteries and she wanted to play with them. She might have to fight daddy for her ball popper because he seemed to really enjoy it. Kevin got some clothes, a bunch of blu ray movies he had asked for, cologne and slippers. I got some kokopelli potholders and a salt & pepper shaker set. I also got a few houses for the Christmas village that I am collecting. This year we got a new flat-screen tv, so that was our Christmas present to each other. Kevin and I bought each other one present from Kileigh. I got a new fossil watch with a purple face and Kevin got a precious moments figurine of a little girl with her arms outstretched. The title is "I love you this much". Kileigh also got a precious moments figurine from grandma that says "Granddaughter you are my sunshine". She also got a precious moments container for her first tooth and first curl. My mother-in-law collects precious moments figurines and now it seems that we are too.
Kevin's brothers and I went in together and got our parents/in-laws a blu ray player for Christmas. We wanted to have them open it last and were starting to get nervous when they started opening presents they got each other: blu ray movies. I wrapped the blu ray player in a big shirt box to disguise it, but since it was quite heavy my father-in-law knew it wasn't clothes. After he opened it, they said that they planned to get one after Christmas, which was why they had gotten each other some blu ray movies. We also got them a couple blu ray dvds that they had asked for.
When we were done with all the presents, we loaded up the cars and headed to Grandma McCarthy's for the Christmas festivities with the whole family. Everyone was there except for 2 of Kevin's cousins and his brothers. It was nice to see everyone and Kileigh had fun playing with her cousins. After dinner, it was time to open presents. Kevin's cousin played Santa. He has a radio show, so he has a great personality to be Santa and was quite funny, even though it did take quite a bit longer to get through the "big pile". This was the first year we weren't in the grab bag, so we didn't get anything. Kileigh got some clothes, and a magnetic dress up doll kit. I think it was around 9 when we started the dice game. We took about 25 presents, which usually are things we find laying around the house. It's always nice to send items to a "new home". Since the presents and dice game ran so late, we didn't get back to Kevin's parents house till late. Good thing we were spending the night, otherwise that would have been a rough drive home. We finally crashed around midnight and were up around 8. Unfortunately Kevin's mom ended up getting sick, so we didn't see her yesterday. I loaded up the car while Kevin hooked up his parents blu ray player and helped his dad get his IPOD up and running. We had breakfast and then made the trip home. We dropped off Haley at home and then went to pick up our friends dogs that we are dog sitting for the next week.
Haley wasn't very happy when the dogs came in the house, but it's much calmer today. I unloaded all the bags, boxes, and containers from the car and pretty much got everything put away last night and vacuumed the upstairs bedrooms. Kileigh's playroom is a mess, so I need to go through it and pull out some toys to send to Grandma and Grandpa's house. I also need to go buy some wrapping paper and return some gifts that we got duplicates of. I am glad to have this next week off. It will give me time to put all the Christmas stuff away and clean the house. Somewhere in there, I plan to relax!
Have a good day!
Beth
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