This year, Christmas equaled "popcorn." Not that we ate any, but having white lights on our Christmas tree caused Zoe to call it a "popcorn tree" which then led to her replacing every 
"Christmas" with popcorn, ie popcorn lights, popcorn presents, popcorn "own-a-mints," and popcorn songs. Christmas was pretty low-key around here. We got ourselves a new tv and a blue-ray player after Thanksgiving. We got Zoe a little kitchen set and Owen a bouncy seat (although that was more for me). Of course the only toy that Zoe got remotely excited about was the $2 Care Bear in her stocking, even though she already has 2 others. Oh well. We stayed in our jammies, watched movies, and had a relaxing day at home. It snowed for the fourth time in a week, leaving us with about a foot and a half of powder all together. We would have loved to be with family, but it was nice not to worry about traveling. Plus it was Owen's first Christmas and our first Christmas in our house.
I didn't get to participate in the 12 Days of Christmas this year, but I did make a giant Christmas To-Do list and every day we tried to do something to get us in the Christmas spirit. Here's what we ended up accomplishing:Decorating Zoe's Advent calendar from Nursery
Syncing the iPod with Christmas music
Decorating the Blog
Taking the kids' Christmas pictures
Making hot chocolate
Reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Making paper snowflakes
Watching the Christmas Devotional
Checking out Christmas books from the library
Visiting Santa
Getting and decorating the tree
Attending James' work Christmas party
Seeing the lights in Spanish Fork
Making felt snowmen
Watching endless Christmas movies - The Christmas Card, Rudlof, Charlie Brown, Elf, Mr Krueger's Christmas, Christmas Vacation, and A Christmas story
Reading the Christmas Story from the Bible.
To save my sanity, I cut out sending Christmas cards this year. It was a hard decision but I really just had to let it go. 2008 was a crazy but wonderful year filled with new experiences and a few hardships, but we are happy with where we're at and where we're headed with our lives. We wish everyone the best of luck in the new year and hope your Christmas was as happy as ours!
4 comments:
That is too cute!! I love the pictures of them in their jammies. Owen sure is getting big. I am ready for the day when we spend christmas with just ourselves. How fun to just lay around in jammies all day!!
Own-a-mints. Very cute. We were driving in that ridiculous snow. Yuck. Next year, we are STAYING HOME. In our jammies the whole day.
I'm so glad the $2 Care Bear was the highlight of the day. It's almost like when they play with the box the toy came in more than the actual toy.
We lounged around at home all day too...jammies and all. I think it's the best way to spend Christmas, especially in your new home.
It's so crazy how they love the cheap little toys and practically ignore the big present. :)
the pictures are so cute!
Hey! Looks like you had a great holiday. We stayed at home too and it was SO NICE not to have to travel. And I cut out Christmas cards as well, some balls just had to get dropped this year and that was one. Zoe is too cute for saying popcorn instead of Christmas, I love what these kids come up with!
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