In the days leading up to the big day....
We opened this present from Stell...Jeff and I were so blown away by how cool it was...she made it in school and wrapped it up for us for Christmas....she was so proud of it...like she is of all her artwork...
We opened this...also made by Aston in school...I want to know how the heck they got the prints to be so perfect!
We had our annual Christmas Eve (although this year is was on Christmas Eve Eve:)) dinner at Aunt wook's house and the kids were allowed to open one gift from Tai Grandma and Tai Yeh to play with ...
Stell got a baby doll that looks just like Baby Wookie so that's what we named her:) and Aston got a John Deer bouncy dump truck!
The stockings by GG Sybil were hung by the chimney with care...
and we opened a gift from Gram...a smaller Simon Pearce Glass Tree to add to the bigger one we got last year...
The kids decorated a giant gingerbread man for Santa to snack on...
we played with our new sticker books...
picked one gift to open on Christmas Eve night...Aston chose his gift from Jacob...and awesome Spiderman (Mei pronounces as "simmy-dom") Car!!!!!!
Did a little dancing...
put out Santa's snack (Aston was convince Santa preferred chocolate milk)...
Stell was convinced it was a community snack...I mean...who the heck is this Santa guy anyway?
Daddy read the bedtime story downstairs by the Christmas Tree...'Twas the Night Before Christmas...of course...
In the end Daddy decided Santa preferred rum infused eggnog instead...and one for Mrs. Claus too:)
and when the children were nestled all snug in their beds....The Claus' diligently put together this awesome doll house for Mei...
while Mommy and Daddy wrapped the last of the family gifts...(I get emotional about this one...I loved that this year Aston got excited about picking out a gift for his sister)
and at last the stockings were filled...to all a good night...
8 comments:
LOVE the artwork. PRECIOUS. the dollhouse is crazy awesome!! can't wait to see future pics of that one. and REALLY LOVE the picture of aston on the slide under your tv. :) off topic, but noticed it and really really love it. love seeing all your christmas traditions. :)
(ps you beat me to the christmas post, haha)
Pretty impressive. You managed to grace the aunts and grandparents with your visits and attention AND had a quality family Christmas.
man, am blown away by stelly's work. for real!! i kind of want it up yeararound! love the kids in matching name pjs ;) great eggnog touch-we were right there with you. love the closeups of the dollhouse. and cool overhead of the stockings. great to see wook's place...nice!
oh i love this post and all the little details leading up. artwork is crazy cool. looks so perfect! made me chuckle to see the first picture of the dollhouse with mr gingerbread's eye and leg missing :-) i like the idea of homemade stockings. those are so cute! did santa like the chocolate milk? will have to remember that this year :-)
love all of your detail shots. and great job documenting all of the detail stories, esp. love the spiked eggnog. :)
You do such an awesome job creating the "magic" of Christmas that no wonder Aston is counting down for Christmas 2011!
Louise
Yes, the artwork is the best! Loved the stockings hanging on the fireplace, the doll house was amazing, alot of hard work went into that assembly required :) Loved the huge gingerbread man and the special drink for santa & Mrs. Clause.
so just going back to this (it's super bowl night and b is out so why not)...things not mentioned b/o...LOVE the hello kitty intro!!, so it's the SP lit tree, right?, for some reason mei looks like kate to me in that dancing pic, love mj reading pic and what the heck did ast give stell?
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