Our Christmas week started out really really cold - in the teens; Tuesday brought freezing rain and Wednesday, Christmas Eve brought torrential rainfall and temperatures in the 60's. It was warm on Christmas day as well but it continued to rain. Athena and I went to Christmas Eve service at SonRise Church where she sang in the Children's Choir. It was a one time a year appearance for the choir and they sang one song. Athena did a lovely job and was very pleased to get to do this this year (her first).
After church, we came home and picked up the boys and headed down to Tom & Teresa's in Sugar Tit, KY. This was the first year for them to host Christmas Eve and it was great! They've spent the past year finishing their basement and it was a nice big open space for my wild family to charge around, eat, drink and be merry. We were all able to be in the same room but didn't feel cramped.
Everyone had a great time and Santa came and brought a bag of goodies for the kids. On Christmas day we did our normal hanging out at home and enjoying each other gig. Athena asked for three things for Christmas - an ipod, roller skates and some Littlest Pet Shop toys. Jesy and George gave her Jesy's old ipod and Santa brought LPS and both kids got roller blades. We also bought Athena a keyboard and Carter electric drums. The kids bought Patrick his very own scooter and helmet.
We tried to keep Christmas simple but we always seem to go overboard. I had to hold back some things that we bought. We did 3 presents each from Santa and 5 each from us - 1 "big" one and the rest smaller (less expensive ones).
All in all it was a lovely Christmas.
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