Well…the holidays are over and I’m back to work. From top to bottom, it was one heckuva great time to be with Sunshine and our kids. The kids had fun, my dad enjoyed having us over to visit, and both Sunshine and I felt as ooey-gooey in love as we ever have.
So without further adu, here is how my Christmas holiday looked like thru pictures…
Because of timing issues, I wasn't able to have my son for Christmas Day. However, I did have him on the 23rd...so we went to my dad's to have our own "Christmas Before Christmas". Ankle Biter opened up a bunch of gifts and we all ended up having a great time.
On Christmas Eve I head out first thing in the morning to be with Sunshine and her girls for Christmas. The weather didn't quite co-operate. Well...it's wasn't a huge storm or anything, but just enough snow fell to make the highways slow-driving on one lane without the ability to pass. It just sucked. Hard.
Yes...this is lasagna. Yes...this is what we had Christmas Eve for dinner. And yes...this was freakin' awesome!!
Enjoying Christmas Eve dinner.
This is what the tree looked like when we went to bed just before midnight. Not too shabby!
The first gifts were opened at 5:21am. If it were up to the girls, they would have been opened a good 45 minutes earlier. To say that they were excited would be an understatement.
So once the girls opened their gifts and we all had breakfast, they ended up going to their dad’s for the remainder of Christmas Day. Sunshine and I head out to visit my dad for Christmas dinner.
The next two days were spent in my bedroom. Literally. We watched movies, ate breakfast/lunch/dinner, and did “other things” in my bedroom for 48 hours. It was pure bliss. And really, it was something that the two of us needed…some downtime.
And no…there are no pictures of these two days.
After a couple more days returning to work, I drove to pick up Sunshine and her girls and brought them back to my dad’s for New Year’s Eve. I then drove to pick up Ankle Biter and brought him back, too. Finally…we were all in the same place at the same time (with the exception of my daughter, who was unable to make it down for Christmas this year).
So here are our New Years’ pics…
One of the gifts that all three kids got was a sock monkey. The fun part was that you bought a kit and put it together yourself. The not-so-fun part was that you ended up sewing the monkeys together yourself. In this pic, Ankle Biter was beginning to stuff the monkey's legs.
The kids LOVED their sock monkeys. There must be some kind of extra connection they have because they help to put it together themselves.
Kiddo was quite excited to be the first one with a "completed" monkey.
Sunshine couldn't have been happier to be sewing on New Year's Eve. Yeah...believe that one.
Being the hardcore partiers that we are, New Year's Eve for us was spent drinking a bit (two beer for me, a couple of glasses of wine for Sunshine) and playing Blokus. We literally had to force ourselves to stay awake in order to hit midnight. Thankfully, though, playing until midnight allowed me to win 2 out of 3 games. Not that I'm counting or anything. Heh...
Nothing says "New Year's Breakfast" like cereal and water. But hey...does he look unhappy in any way?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
On New Year’s Day, we visited some more of my family and then came back to my place to crash for one more night. In the morning, I took Ankle Biter back to his mom’s and I took the girls back home to their dad’s. Thankfully, we got one more picture of the kids together before we left for the kids’ journeys home…
Happy New Year 2012!!
Sunshine and I then kinda melted onto the couch exhausted for the remainder of the day.
All in all, it was a GREAT time. It was a LOT of traveling, but it was totally worth it.
