Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas!

 Pictures of our Christmas morning.















 The girls got Leap Pads like an iPad, and remote control Barbie on a horse.  The boys got a new coat for their school for winter sports, iTunes cards and a wet suit.  




 Christmas crackers are big here.  You pull apart the package to get a small prize and it always comes with a paper crown.
 After lunch the Mamouneys were so great to invite us over with their family to play Christmas BINGO with them.  If you got BINGO you got to pick a prize from the present basket.  Bindi shops all year out of the bargain bins for the presents.  Some are really good like the manicure set I got.  You can steal presents if you want.  It was so much fun, and I'd love to incorporate this into our Christmas traditions.


 The girls were loving it.  Mia painted their nails and Bindi did their hair.




When we came home we had a Back to the Future marathon watching the trilogy Spencer got for Christmas. They had never seen it, and it had been awhile since I'd seen it.  
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.  

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Twas the Night Before Christmas

 We had a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner with friends at our house tonight. 
 Tara and Mary
 Anne, Michael, Shanae, and Ashley
 Johanna and Tim
 Me and Jennifer
 Hope, Faith and Delilah
 Jeremy, Tara, Mary, Anne, Michael, Shanae, David and Jennifer

 The memory of Christmas that is closest to my heart is the white elephant game so I made everyone bring a white elephant to play tonight.  I searched and searched but couldn't find the story of the Little Star.  I can hear my Grandma Grace's voice in this story as you pass along white elephants.  I will have to get a copy of this story.  We had to make due with a different story to pass along our white elephants.






 This won the best white elephant award.  It is a real toad that has been made into a purse.
 Spencer lit his belated birthday cake and we sang to him.
 And just before bed the kids opened their Christmas P.J.'s from Mammy.

We are off to bed!