Christmas

Christmas Eve we made our annual Christmas cookies.  I buy the premade dough but they kids roll it out and make cut out cookies.  They use a lot of flour.  They made several dozen cookies.  Then because Brian no longer eats high fructose corn syrup we made our own icing.  It was easy.  We had 4 colors of frosting.  Austin and Sydney really enjoyed frosting them.  They developed a system and they had fun with it.  Austin’s favorite show right now is cake wars.  He started watching at my parents house and now Brian brought him it on Amazon.  He loves cooking right now. 

We went to Christmas Eve mass.  It was busy but we got seats.  Austin and Sydney fell asleep during Mass.  My mom decided to meet us at McDonald’s afterwards.  For the past several years, we go to McDonald’s for dinner on Christmas Eve.  It all started when there was nothing to do on that day for us.  This year I was fine cooking dinner but we wanted to keep the Christmas Eve McDonald’s tradition going.  The kids played at McDonald’s for a bit then we got home.

Austin and Sydney made reindeer food and put it out.  They put out the milk and cookies for Santa.  They also had to call into the North Pole and see where Santa was on the TV.  It was a fun and exciting night for them.  When it was time for bed, they had a difficult time falling asleep.  They were excited and also had a brief nap at church.  Brian and I wanted them to sleep.  We knew we had a lot of work to do. 

After they were finally asleep, we wrapped their presents and put them under the tree.  Then we went to bed and waited for Santa to come.  Austin woke up early because his tooth fell out at 4am.  He was so excited he could not go back to bed. Sydney got up at 6am and we went and woke up my mom.  The kids got some pictures and then started to open their gifts. 

Austin got a race track and a drone.  Sydney got a big my little pony and a flip a zoo.  Sydney also got a doll and slippers.  Austin got emoji pillow.  They both got robes that they love.  Also got some slippers. 

After presents were opened, I made breakfast.  I just made some pancakes and eggs with cinnamon rolls.  The kids love cinnamon rolls.  Then they were ready to play with their toys. Austin’s gifts took some time to put together.  The drone had to charge and the race track needed put together.  Sydney was able to play with her stuff a bit sooner.  But finally we got everything put together for them. 

They enjoyed the day playing with their stuff.  Then we went down to my mom’s for dinner and for the kids to open their stuff there.  They got a lot of stuff there too.  Austin got another electric race track that he loved.  Sydney got some games and shopkins.  They had fun. It was a great Christmas but we missed my dad a lot! 

Brian was off during Christmas break.  He took the kids to the Globetrotters game.  They really enjoyed that.  I took them to Sky Zone, Fun N Stuff, and Chuck E Cheese.  Most of them were with their friends that they enjoyed. 

For New Years Eve, it was really cold.  We made appetizers like usual for dinner.  We went over to our friends for a bit.  Then we came home and let the kids watch a movie.  Brian got the projector set up downstairs and the kids love watching movies down there.  They watched several movies during break. 

When it was time for them to go back to school, it was really cold so they called off school for 2 days.  Then it was the weekend, but on Monday morning, we got an ice storm.  They were off another day.  They were going a bit crazy and always bothering each other.  It was a good relaxing break but it was good for us to get back into our routine too.