We’ll start with Christmas Eve.  I can’t for the life of me remember what we did during the day, but I’m sure it was something.  Since I don’t have any photo documentation to remind me, I’ll skip ahead to the evening.  We had the Gurneys over for the traditional Christmas Eve fondu.  For some reason, that took the entire evening, and we never got around to the games, acting out the nativity or reading from the bible.  I think it was becuase of all the fun and chatting.  The kids also had fun playing wii.  And had there been an ugly Christmas sweater contest going on, this guy definitely would have won best in show.

And now on to Christmas Day.  It was very low key this year.  I had actually been prepping the kids for months that they were not getting any presents from us.  And I totally stuck to that!  They had a measly little pile from Santa (that could not be avoided…obviously) and that was it.  The whole thing only took about 5 minutes.  Now before you go feeling all bad for the kids, I should add that they were shown love from extended family.  No, Nate and I are not Grinches or Scrooges…we took the kids to Florida two days later and went to Disney World where they totally made up for lack of gifts!  (Details on that to come.)

Despite the lack of gifts, the kids were still totally excited.  I wish we hadn’t forgotten that we had set our camera up for different shots the day before, because this is the only picture we got of the kids running down the hall…but you get the gist of their level of giddiness.

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