Merry Christmas!
Friday was my last day of work before the holiday break. It was also PJ day, aka the best day of my professional career. Hopefully we'll have more of those to come.
We went to church Sunday morning and came home to open gifts amongst the four of us before heading to Fergus to celebrate with Dana's side.
We were passing out the gifts and Clara told me that one of hers that was in a gift bag was a Bison shirt. We were teasing her how she knew that, but then she felt bad that she had (obviously) peeked, so Brynn was consoling her..as she was opening her Bison t-shirt.
Brynn's gift to Clara.
Dad was just as excited as Brynn that she received the Motoworks kit where you basically build a small motor.
Mom's turn!
Dana got me a new pair of purple Pumas.
And an iPad!
It must have already been a long day by the time we took off for Fergus later in the afternoon. She pretty much refuses to take a nap anymore, but then mysteriously usually falls asleep in car rides longer than a half an hour.
Playing Dr. Mario and other Nintendo games.
Monday morning we opened up some gifts from Grandpa and Grandma Santa. I think Dana should have to give his back. You see that red ball of tissue paper coming right at me?
We went to the afternoon service at Holly and Kevin's church and came home and opened gifts.
...but took some pics first. :-)
A total "Brynn" expression. Haha. I think she was surprised with the gift cards they received from Grandpa and Grandma for our Disney trip next year.
Getting cookies ready for Santa.
We opened up Santa gifts Tuesday morning and lounged around for a while before packing up and heading home.
On our way back to Fargo, my parents called to FaceTime with Seymour (their cat) since we were with Dana's side for Christmas this year. It was so cute.
I will post our bucket list activities in a separate post, but we have been busy playing with the new things we got for Christmas and checking the activities of our list and trying to catch up on some cleaning and organizing.
Clara was sad that she wasn't allowed to help put Brynn's motor together with Dad and Brynn.
We had a wonderful Christmas and hope you did too! Here is a video montage or highlight reel. :-) Just a couple of notes of explanation: Clara is talking on the phone to "Santa" aka Harlan, Holly's brother. He called on Christmas eve to wish us a merry Christmas and Holly had him on speaker phone. I think he said something about Santa calling and Clara's ears perked up and thought it was Old Saint Nick himself on the phone. So, she had to chat it up with him for a while. It was so cute and pretty exciting for her to actually get to talk to Santa on Christmas. She told him she'd leave some cookies out for him and Santa asked for chocolate milk. The last part of the video is the longest, but it's so stinking hilarious. She was making Santa's chocolate milk and making sure she got it just right.
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