Christmas

It was a wonderful Christmas. Our day was beautiful and white. We had the first white Christmas since we moved into our house. It was so wonderful to wake up to freshly fallen snow. Yeah, Ryan didn't appreciate having to shovel the walk and the driveway but it was sure beautiful.
Our day began early, try 6:30ish. Kieran came in and woke me up and said it was Christmas, then he woke the rest of the family up and the festivities began. We opened gifts for about an hour and a half and then Ryan went back to bed for two hours. He had only gotten 2 and half hours of sleep when we got up and began opening gifts...he said he had the hardest time falling asleep. I think he was just over excited and couldn't sleep...this was the first year that Steff got into opening gifts and next year should be even better because Say will be into it for the first time and Steff will be even more into it and of course, Kieran was still be excited for it all.
At about 10:30 we left to go to Ryan's dad's for the goings on over there. We had a good time at his dad's. There were a lot of people there but it wasn't as miserable as I thought it would be. It was actually nice to see everyone. We got some really neat stuff from Great Grandma and Grandpa Kelstrom and of course, Sherm and Diane as well. Great Gpa and Gma gave Kieran one of the gifts he wanted the most-Heeleys...He was so excited and I don't think he's taken them off since.
After Dad and Diane's we came home and veged some more. I laid down because I had somehow managed to work up a headache. It was a pretty bad one too but it went away easily. I think I just got over stimulated.
At about 5:30pm we headed over to my sister Jamie's house to finish off our Christmas running around...We were there for about two hours and by that time our kids were finished and ready to hit the sack. They played hard and had a great day.
Ryan and I really enjoyed watching our kids this Christmas. They are so fun and funny to watch.
There was nothing overly exciting about our Christmas and that's okay because it made for a pretty relaxing day of fun and family. We have seriously decided that next year we aren't going anywhere-we'll see if that sticks??? If next year could be as easy as this year then I don't have any problems making a couple of stops. Don't get me wrong, it would be nice to have a nice, relaxing Christmas at home but a couple of stops isn't bad at all.
All in All it was a wonderful Christmas. The Lord blessed us immensely and nothing but wonderful things happened. I felt bad all day that Ryan was so tired but he did well and was quite the trooper. The kids were great and well-behaved and there were no illnesses or tragedies. What a blessed day it was.