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Santa brought us all new hats this year.
Chocolate covered popcorn for breakfast. It doesn't get any better than that.
The paper war. Brody had a blast.
Brody wasn't too excited about the clothes at first but he soon started handing each piece of clothing to us and saying "like pants", "like shirt". It was so cute. He also had to have EVERY piece of paper off of the box - we could not move forward unless that was taken care of. We finally got through all of mine and Jason's gifts and most of Brody's by 11:00. Jason got mostly clothes and I got accesories, charger for our counter, and a BIG camera bag to hold both our video camera, new digital camera and extra lense. We then headed off to my parents for lunch and presents.
We also all got new chairs even Brody. He loves that it has cup holders.
Thank goodness it's about a 40 minute drive because this was Brody's nap for the entire day. He was such a trooper. After the traditional dinner at Nana's, we opened presents. Brody actually passed out presents to everyone. It was the cutest thing because you would think that as a 2 year old you would only want to open, but not Brody - he passed out every present and even put his in a pile to open. Nana and Poppy gave Brody a guitar. Brody loves to play Poppy's guitars and he loves playing his. He came with a stand and everything. He also received a harmonica and he learned pretty quickly how to play and he serenaded us for the rest of the evening. Brody also received a REAL set of golf clubs from Nana and Poppy. He has broken all of his other clubs so he was in desparate need of some. There's a putter, driver and wedge in a golf bag with stand. It's the cutest thing ever. Thank goodness he didn't realize what it was when he opened it because Nana may not have anything still in one piece if he got a hold of them.
Cousin Wendi pretty excited about Brody's new guitar.
Here's his new clubs but thank goodness he didn't realize what they were.
Jason and I knew Christmas this year would be a lot of fun with Brody being 2. We set no alarm and just let him wake us up. Thank goodness he's a late sleeper- he didn't wake up until around 9:00. Jason and I had the video set up on a tripod to capture his face when he walked in to see what Santa had brought. His face was so cute as he looked at the massive basketball hoop sitting in our main room and then looked at us. I can only imagine what he must have been thinking since this is what we had mentioned to him to tell Santa that he wanted - nothing like a little persuasion.
We watched him play basketball for about 15-20 minutes. It's a little tall for him now but he'll grow into it and I'm sure he'll be making the shots before too long. He's actually made a few shots and when he does he gets SOOOO excited. Now this basketball hoop actually should be outside so I'm sure it will be a sad day when we have to move it out. Santa also brought Brody a new Thomas the Train tricycle. He still needs some practice on how to pedal.
We finally moved on to the stocking and he loved pulling stuff out of it. Jason wouldn't let me wrap stocking stuff because he says that Santa doesn't wrap. However, I always remember Santa wrapping ( I guess I was just nieve about the whole thing). I explained that my stocking stuff still needed to be wrapped. I guess this may end next year because how do you explain how Santa wraps some and not others??
Santa brought us all new hats this year.
Chocolate covered popcorn for breakfast. It doesn't get any better than that.
The paper war. Brody had a blast.
Brody wasn't too excited about the clothes at first but he soon started handing each piece of clothing to us and saying "like pants", "like shirt". It was so cute. He also had to have EVERY piece of paper off of the box - we could not move forward unless that was taken care of. We finally got through all of mine and Jason's gifts and most of Brody's by 11:00. Jason got mostly clothes and I got accesories, charger for our counter, and a BIG camera bag to hold both our video camera, new digital camera and extra lense. We then headed off to my parents for lunch and presents.
Brody was getting into the present thing by this time. Mom and Dad got Brody a Black and Decker work bench. He absolutely loves it. He also got clothes and a few more toys. We then ate steak and twice baked potatoes. This has been a big tradition in my family for quite sometime. We don't do the traditional Christmas meal - we need a break after Thanksgiving. We sat around with them until around 3:30 and then packed up for the beach to visit Jason's mom.
We also all got new chairs even Brody. He loves that it has cup holders.
Thank goodness it's about a 40 minute drive because this was Brody's nap for the entire day. He was such a trooper. After the traditional dinner at Nana's, we opened presents. Brody actually passed out presents to everyone. It was the cutest thing because you would think that as a 2 year old you would only want to open, but not Brody - he passed out every present and even put his in a pile to open. Nana and Poppy gave Brody a guitar. Brody loves to play Poppy's guitars and he loves playing his. He came with a stand and everything. He also received a harmonica and he learned pretty quickly how to play and he serenaded us for the rest of the evening. Brody also received a REAL set of golf clubs from Nana and Poppy. He has broken all of his other clubs so he was in desparate need of some. There's a putter, driver and wedge in a golf bag with stand. It's the cutest thing ever. Thank goodness he didn't realize what it was when he opened it because Nana may not have anything still in one piece if he got a hold of them.
Cousin Wendi pretty excited about Brody's new guitar.
Here's his new clubs but thank goodness he didn't realize what they were. Acting like Spiderman in his new Spiderman PJ's.
As the tradition goes, we always play a game on Christmas night. So Brody played his guitar or harmonica for us while we played our game and we left around 11:00 with Brody STILL awake. He was so good with not having much sleep. Brody never ceases to amaze us.
As the tradition goes, we always play a game on Christmas night. So Brody played his guitar or harmonica for us while we played our game and we left around 11:00 with Brody STILL awake. He was so good with not having much sleep. Brody never ceases to amaze us.
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