The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

The song lyrics are true! Christmas is really the most wonderful time of the year! It was made even more wonderful with the news that we'll be heading north this summer. Charlie will be joining a practice up in Concord, NH. It's hard to believe that this chapter in our lives is coming to a close and we'll be able to settle down somewhere for good! I cannot wait to start house hunting and calling some place home! David is already worried about Santa not knowing where the new house is, so we promised that we'd send him a "change of address" form!

We have had a very busy couple of weeks. Our Christmas celebrations started last Saturday at our annual Rec Center party! Silly Willy the clown came and performed his magic show and then made the kids balloon puppets! Shaun asked for a Santa hat!



Then there was a visit from Santa!


The boys had a lot of fun decorating gingerbread men cookies and playing with their friends! The rest of the week was just as busy, David had his class party on Monday, while Shaun was at the Rec getting ready for a Christmas parade! This is Shaun checking out his Rudolph nose! He was pretty excited!


On Wednesday the David had his concert at school. He looked very handsome in his suit!


Thursday was a nice relaxing low key day, we headed over to Susan's to make gingerbread houses. The kits were really cute and had a little candy Santa with a sleigh. They walls were made from brown sugar and pretty heavy so they didn't stay up very well, but the kids had fun and that is all that counts!



On Christmas eve we headed to MIL & FIL's to spend the night. David wrote a note to Finn (our Elf on the Shelf) to let him know to tell Santa that we'd be staying there so he would know where to bring their presents! We went to the Christmas Eve service at the Atkinson Congregational Church and then came back to open up the traditional Christmas jammies, and then make cookies and hot cocoa for Santa before heading off to bed.



Evan liked the paper more than the Jammies!




The boys woke up at 6:40 Christmas morning but I was able to hold them off until 7am. We hung out in our bed talking about what they thought was waiting downstairs for them! David watched for the SIX to change to a SEVEN and said "It's time to go downstairs now!"



The boys before opening their gifts!


This is also a very special Christmas since it's Evan's FIRST Christmas! He had so much fun watching all the excitement going on, but mostly he just liked eating the paper!




After all of the excitement of opening gifts at MIL & FIL's we headed over to my parents for a delicious Christmas Prime Rib dinner and more festivities! My Aunt, Uncle and cousins stopped by for dessert and Secret Santa before we headed back to MIL & FIL's for to pack up and head home!