Merry Christmas!

Oh, after the crazy month of December, it was great for Christmas to finally come.  No more craziness.  The event is here.
Wait, did I just say "no more craziness?"  Hah!
Setting out cookies for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer

Liam's got the notes to Santa

I actually got them to hold still for the span of a camera flash.  Amazing!

Santa came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Liam got a noisemaker push toy

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Robin got A CAMERA!!!  One all his own!

We got a White Christmas!  An actual White Christmas, where the snow was fresh and not days-old.  In fact, we had to pause the presents to shovel, since we were hosting the meal later in the day, and we needed to provide space to park.

Good morning!  We've got a busy day ahead of us

The stockings are full!  Though in our household, we don't open them until after Chrimstas

And, of course, the Sticky Buns are made!

Once we finished our gifts to each other, we had some time to play with them before our first wave of guests arrived

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Then my family arrived and we did our second gift exchange

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We had both families over to our house for a big lunchtime meal between gift exchanges.  Every year, we're very thankful to have two families that get along so well, and allow us to do this.

We made a really scrumptious pork with potatoes, and all of the accompanying dishes were really yummy too.

After the meal and Liam's nap, we did our final gift exchange of the day.  Grammy made matching kangaroo sweaters for the boys this year

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We got spoiled!

So Christmas was very hectic, but it was fun.  It was a bit overwhelming for the boys after a while.  Robin was everywhere at once, and during each gift exchange Liam reached a point where he was over and done with it all, so we opened the rest of his presents for him.  It took us a little while to find homes for all the new things, but we've reclaimed our living room again.

I hope your holiday was merry and bright, as well!