Christmas 2013

 This year Christmas kicked off December 24th at Brian's Parents house for vigilia. (Polish Christmas Eve)

Cameron and Babcia check out where Santa is on the Norad Tracker

The kids listen to Great Babcia explain the traditions that we celebrate.

This is the exchanging of the blessed wafer that comes from Poland everyone gets a piece and we walk around and each take a small piece off the others wafer and eat it and wish each other a Merry Christmas

This year I brought cookies for the kids to decorate so they would have something to do while the adults cleaned up from dinner.  It made waiting to open presents a little more bearable.  This year we were so happy that Christina and the girls, Rose and Lilly were able to be with us at Christmas. We were sad that Jason wasn't able to be with us because he is stationed up in Greenland, but it was nice for the boys to see their cousins!  After cookies were decorated it was time to OPEN PRESENTS!!!

The boys got many wonderful gifts from everyone and they were very excited!  Even Owen started to get the hang of opening presents!  Before we knew it, it was time to head home and put out our....

Reindeer food!!!

Then we came in the house and I asked that we get one picture of the boys in front of the tree

Then it was time to put out our cookies that the kids had decorate earlier in the night for santa

This year we couldn't find our copy of The Night Before Christmas.  So I had to download it on my ipad and we read it off that.  This will NOT happen again next year.  I will be getting a good copy of the book.    Anyhow the kids went right to bed and Brian and I watched a Christmas Story and went to bed to wait for Santa.

The boys waiting at the top of the stairs to be told they can come down.

Santa ate his cookies, drank his eggnog and left the boys a note

And the boys opened their gifts! Cameron was very excited to get the Wizard of OZ DVD and puppets from the Wizard of OZ and Liam was super excited for his Play Doh Trash truck, Brady loved his plane that got with the control tower and Owen was happy with his Taggie blanket!  But the big present for the boys was.....

An XBox 360 with Minecraft (of course)

After the hustle and bustle of the morning died down a little we headed over to my parents house for lunch.  The kids had gotten some games so they brought those over and they got a pretty good game going with uncle Dave, Daddy , Mackenzie, and the boys!

2013 was a great year!  We added another wonderful child to our family who has been such a blessing and fit into our family so well!  Merry Christmas from our family to yours! may 2014 be another wonderful year for all!