What a wonderful Christmas this year! We celebrated many times and with many people and it was all very special. Our first gathering was the "cousin Christmas" at Scott & Tracy's on Sat., the 20th. Since we spent Christmas in Washington this year, we met up with most of the Robinson clan a bit early & let the kids enjoy time together and their exchange gifts. Everyone was there except Jeff & Charlene, who understandably couldn't make two trips from Iowa within just a few days. It was a lot of fun.
On Christmas Eve, we headed to Washington for Christmas at Grandma Donna & Grandpa Jerry's. We left a bit later than expected, so we met up at church around 3:45pm for 4:30pm mass. The kids did really well considering they got straight out of the car after the 3 1/2 hour trip and went right into a long mass. Then we headed to Grandma & Grandpa's for a Christmas Eve celebration with Grandma Rita and also Uncle Ben & Aunt Rachel. It was another special time.
Christmas day was pretty low key, just relaxing and we did visit with Grandma Mary that morning. The rest of the day we pretty much relaxed and had a nice lunch with us, Grandma & Grandpa, Grandma Rita, and Uncle Greg & Aunt Debbi. Too bad Grandma Donna wasn't feeling too well - she spent most of the day resting in bed. BUT, the food she made ahead of time was still very yummy.
The day after Christmas, Beth & Robert came to town so it was fun to visit with them as well. Another low key day overall. The weather was pretty good, though, so Patrick took the boys to the park for a few hours when Leah was napping (& I tried to sneak in a nap - sometimes when you have the chance, it's still kind of hard to get that done!). Lots of fun.
Saturday, we headed back to our house to see if Santa had stopped through. YEAH! The kids took a few minutes to notice the gifts under the tree, but once they saw them, it took a whole six minutes for the gifts to be unwrapped...then another SIXTY minutes to get all the toys out of the child-proof (& somewhat parent-proof) packaging! Overall I think the kids really enjoyed it.
They got plenty of nice things...
Leyton & Nathaniel, & Jacob - clothes, walkie talkies (they've wanted these forever), firetrucks, caterpillar backhoes, etc., Thomas train pieces, books, baseball gloves (cool ones that even light up!), puzzles, etc. (yes, all pretty similar gifts as they pretty much always want the same things).
Leah - clothes, dolls, puzzle, books, etc.
The weekend was topped off by a visit at home from Grandma Sally & Grandpa Dan. This was a great visit, too. Jacob got a toy motorcycle, Leyton & Nathaniel got an ambulance & helicopter, and some Jayhawk outfits for all. Leah got clothes and a Little People cute airplane.
Always fun to spend time with family for sure.
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