Christmas Time is Here (I Mean Over)

Christmas came and is almost over. It was a wonderful celebration at the Darrington home. We had plans to go to Jed and Annie's house, but at the last minute plans changed and we stayed home. We were lucky enough to have both grandmas stay at our house on Christmas Eve and Morning. We also had the treat of having Uncle Quincy. Dace said that Quincy is his "playground", and he was treated like one.

As always P.J the Elf came through for us again with some very fun Pajamas. Here are some highlights.



Reese was not happy with his pajamas. He was trying to convince Quade to trade. Quade was having none of it. So when Grandma offered he jumped at the opportunity. Don't worry he changed his mind and they traded back.Early in the evening we got a strange phone call. A man was on the phone taking a survey of how many people in Enterprise had a Wii gaming system, and wanted to know if we had one. I told him sadly we didn't have one. He said "Well you do now!" We won a Wii from a drawing at the local grocery store. The kids were totally stoked. All of our traditional Christmas Eve plans flew out the window, as the kids spent their evening playing away on their new toy, and yes even some of the adults were able to play.
Christmas morning came sooner than expected (thanks to Morgan Jeffery secretly setting the alarm on my phone to go off at 3am.) Luckily the kids were still sleeping. They didn't roll out of bed until 5:30am. Then they woke Grandma up to see if it was time to open presents. They lined up on the stairs and the celebration began.Lots of great homemade gifts this year. Dad got an awesome M&M machine from Reese. And I received a beautiful new desk Royd has been slaving over for weeks. It is perfect. I have a wonderful husband.

Rock Band was a hit at our house. Everyone had tons of fun rocking out.
Later on we had the Pickerings, Chafin, Mirinda, and Washington over for a yummy Christmas dinner. I am ready to call it a day. It was a good one!