This year the plan was to do Christmas with just the three of us and then head out to the lake to visit Nana and Papa and Uncle Drew. Because we knew the car would be full with just Sadie, our luggage and all of our gifts for Nana and Papa we decided we would do our Christmas a day early. Luckily Patrick put in a call to Santa in the North Pole and he was able to come visit our house a day early so we awoke on Christmas Eve morning to our house full of gifts. I will have to upload the video of Parker's reaction as I brought him down the stairs. He was so very excited to see all of the fun things Santa had brought including a huge dump truck full of mega blocks, a tool set and a special child-size folding table. Then we moved onto all of our other gifts and the fun just kept on going.
That night we headed out for round 2 with the Mathews. After a yummy and hearty dinner of chili ( we have decided this should be our new Xmas eve tradition) my Mom and I headed to the Chapel at the Reserve (where Parker was baptized) for their Christmas Eve Service. The Village at the Reserve looked so festive and every time I am there I swear I have just stepped out of a Pottery Barn catalog.
Parker got us up early on Christmas morning (it wouldn't be Christmas morning without an early wake-up call) and we started in with the presents again pausing only for a yummy homemade breakfast thanks to Patrick and Uncle Drew. Parker loved all of his new gifts including his Fisher Price Farm, frog rain boots, Elmo slippers and his very first Brio wooden train set.
Christmas night we had a special visitor...SANTA!!! At first Parker was completely freaked out by this strange man in the red suit but by the end of the night he was high-fiving Santa's "Ov-Glove" and saying "Ho Ho Ho!" It was pretty cool.
Next year will be a whole new world with Parker. We can't wait for the fun!
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