We had such a fun Christmas season. On Christmas Eve we did the traditional Jensen family party at my mom & dad's.
It was a little different this year because instead of getting together later in the afternoon and staying until bedtime we got together in the morning because a giant storm was on it's way. We had a great dinner (lunch), played Christmas Bingo, and acted out the nativity as my brother read colorfully from the Bible. Nick was Joseph-he has no one to contend with for the part yet-and Skylar & Kade were wisemen, although Kade refused to participate in the actual show because he was exhausted. He crashed right after and then everyone opened presents.
As the snow began to fall, we all decided to head home and everyone mostly made it home before it got too bad-it took my sister over 2 hours though! Anyway, it was a little different to actually have the whole evening to just relax after.
We had gnocchis for dinner which is a new favorite of the kids and then we broke out the Christmas jammies and watched 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' on TV until it was time for bed. It was more difficult for the kids to fall asleep since they didn't have the ride home from Grandma & Grandpa's to crash. Skylar was still wide awake until 11:30 but finally some sleeping came....
And so did Santa! Nick came in to inform us about 4 am that he was pretty sure that Santa had been there. We were grateful that he went back to sleep and we actually got to "sleep in" until 7:30. The kids of course loved all the loot they got and Mom & Dad of course realized they got too much. Favorites for Skylar were the Digital Art Studio and a singing Jasmine. Nick's favorites were his "Batman robot" and X-wing ship . Kade loved his Dancing Spiderman and Batmobile. Ben and I were excited to finally move into a nice comfortable, quiet (no boings! in the night!) King Sized bed-however, the jury is still out on whether I like the hugeness of the bed! I miss having Ben so close! I think he's just fine with it since I have always been known to be a restless sleeper!!
After the presents were finally opened (including presents for all of our pets!) we had Ben's family over for lunch and more presents. It was an exhausting, yet fun day.
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We found ourselves saying the same thing...too much! But it is nice to spoil once in awhile, cuz we haven't always been in a place to do that and may not get to very often (who knows how life changes from year to year).
Ame also got the digital art studio. But with sooo many other NEW things she has only used it once or twice. But I think she will really like it!
We enjoyed spending time with you guys and hope we can do it more often!
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