Christmas 2011

Holy cow this year's Christmas was fun. We'd been talking about Santa and Jesus' birthday for months and Emery was stoked. Someone's going to bring me presents... just because? It was a great tool for keeping her on the "good list" because she didn't want to disappoint Santa! :) She had her first school program, where she was a singing sheep. Most adorable thing we'd ever seen!!!

Christmas Eve was here in our new home, w/ Mom and Dad Deccio, my Brother Sean, his wife Lesa, son Devin and his wife, Jennifer. We watched the Seahawks game and had a big crab and ham dinner. It was a blast! London is having some major "mommy don't go!" issues, so cooking, hosting or cleaning up was hard. Devin picked her up once and she fell in love w/ him... it was the only time, but I loved that. After dinner we had a white elephant gift exchange, where everyone brought Starbucks gift cards, :) and then the little kids opened gifts from Grandma and Grandpa. Emery got a new police car like daddy's (from both sets of grandparents) and hasn't stopped talking about it or wanting to drive it since.

Christmas morning, 7am on the dot, E came into our room so excited to look under the tree. We walked her down the stairs, turned on the tree lights & Santa had come! She was in heaven!!! She tore through gifts like she was digging for gold. From one gift to the next. Barbies and cars, rain boots and jewelry box... Admiring each gift and tearing into the next. Watching her was too much fun to even remember that Chris and I had gifts too! Christopher opened his new games, iPhone4 & Wayne Gretsky ornament. I opened up complete new skin care, beautiful boots and the amazing new MacBook Air that I'm typing this on. My Scentsy and photo businesses are growing so fast that he wanted me to have a mobile business computer to store all of my data onto... and to hopefully use for school soon. Dreaming of going back for nursing, once the babies are older and more self sufficient.

Cruz and London opened up new clothes and toys, loving the bows and paper most of all. Their new train was a hit for all. Emery steals it most of the time.

As we get older, we are realizing that these holidays and specials times are so much more fun w/ them. They make everything that we already loved about this life, a trillion times better.

Just before Christmas, Chris and I woke up w/ a sweet case of pinkeye! We went straight to the dr. for drops and were totally impressed that the kids hadn't gotten it! Well Chris got it a second time, and Emery woke up w/ it yesterday. New Years Eve was pretty quiet around here... not many people wanted to hang out w/ us. ;)

Its New Years day, the babies are 9 months old and Emery is almost 3. Cruz is biting everything and chasing the girls. London is trying so hard to mimic my words and get into everything. She tells Cruz "no no" for just about everything... I must say that a lot. THey both say Dada and London's working on Mama. Sounds a little more like NaNa though. They both give kisses on command and STILL DONT SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT!

Happy New Year!!!