Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I wish I had more photos to share than just this grainy cell phone pic, but we returned home yesterday from Christmas to find our internet on the fritz.

A wonderful first Christmas for the twins who were spoiled with lots of presents and attention from everyone. To be honest, I don't think I held a baby all Christmas Day, as various family members snuggled them while we helped Brendan with his presents. They seemed to stop teething for most of the time we were away, and were only fussy a handful of times. In the week we were away they learned how to put their own soothers back in, which amazes me. They don't stay helpless for long!

Brendan was extremely cute this year and was overjoyed when Santa did indeed bring him a "Costco Train Set". Christmas as a parent of 3 felt a little like being the ringmaster at a 3 ring circus but all the presents got opened, everyone got thanked (I hope) and nothing got left behind. After a wonderful 3 days in Ripley and our traditional Christmas morning and breakfast at Bob and Gail's,  we hit the road around noon for my parents place in Port Stanley. All 3 kids crashed and had a good nap in the car. As did their mother. We had another whirlwind gift opening and a fantastic turkey dinner. Brendan was in train junkie heaven, as his grand dad had made him wooden freight cars out of his own old model train set. Brendan insisted on sleeping in the main room beside his trains for the next 3 nights. We had 3 more wonderful days with family, with lots of quality time for the cousins to play and lots of hours of board games for the adults. We finally peeled ourselves away Wednesday night so we could prepare for the next adventure!

We leave Saturday morning for our first attempt at at traveling with the twins ; we are going to lake placid for a week with our friends Matt & Melissa, Mike & Angela to celebrate new years. This year marks the 15th year for our NYE tradition with this gang. Wish us luck! We'll be putting up lots of pictures and updates hopefully when we get back after the 8th. Happy new year!