We had such a nice Christmas at home despite the fact that we had a household of sickies with colds. We chose to hide the presents in our downstairs bathroom until both kids woke up which turned out to be a good idea because Mark caught Isaiah snooping around downstairs at 4 a.m.! Isaiah overall did well with the chaos of presents but did get overwhelmed late morning and stated falling apart. Luckily some quiet time by himself with his ipad helped calm him down. We focused this year on games, books, and art supplies for the kids instead of toys.
I got Mark a small batch home beer brewing kit (thank you Chuckie for steering me in the direction of Austin Home Brewing!) He loves it.
Later on that evening we traveled to Mark's restaurant to cook "christmas dinner" which just consisted of a few snacks and fries for the kids. It was an amazing experience for Isaiah to be able to run around and explore a restaurant. It was neat for the boys to watch daddy use a fryer to make fries and to let them watch Daddy batter calamari. They both enjoyed jiggling the fry baskets and say "shake shake shake!"
Overall a great day. We are so blessed to have the little boys in our lives. We kept on saying yesterday how much better Christmas is when you have kids of your own! We were blessed to have celebrated Christmas with Paw Paw and Nana Bartley earlier in the month, and we will (hopefully) celebrate with Gum (Grandma Girmann) and a few of her kiddos next week. We also look forward to seeing the Estridges in a few weeks!
