Last Sunday we celebrated Christmas with the grandbabies. I fixed a meal of turkey, homemade bread, carrots, potatoes, cranberry sauce, and fudge for dessert. We went down after church and got there around 3PM.
First we ate and then opened gifts. It was so enjoyable watching them open gifts. Haley's first gift was a v tech train we got her. You can see she was unsure about whether she liked it or not.
Maybe she thought it was Mason's? Mason was sure he liked it. He kept trying to let us know he wanted the train in the box. You can see after Haley is opening another gift, he is smiling at Andrew trying to get him to open the train for him.
Bless his heart! And you can see in the next picture he is pointing at the box.
Awww He finally got distracted opening his gifts. Haley helped when he needed her.
I love this puzzle I got him. You open the doors and there are animals behind them.
One of the highlights of the evening was when Haley ran to me and said, "we got you a machine (sewing)." Hahahahaha
She said, "I will show you." And, she even opened it for me. I tell ya, I am spoiled. I did not have to lift a finger. ;)
It was so sweet of her. The secret truth is I saw that sewing machine on sale for really cheap and called Andrew to tell him I wanted it for Christmas. He gave me his card number and I ordered it. Yay!!! I love it!!
We got Mason and activity table that had a train on it. He loved it and sat on top of it.
Haley was so excited when she opened the princess play doh we got her that she showed me her happy face.
Ahhhh that sweet smile means the world to me.
It was such fun watching them open their gifts.
See, Mason got a train too. Yay!
Nikki had a great idea of us turning the couch around to face the tree so we could easily watch the babies. It worked out wonderful.
She helped put together Haley's play doh princess while Andrew put together Mason's activity table.
Then Andrew opened Haley's train set to put it together. Haley was thrilled.
I love, love, love the look on her face. Andrew gave Mason the train out of the box, and his face lit up. He remembered it.
Andrew started taking the train tracks out of the box, and Haley decided she wanted to put it together.
Mason loved playing with the marble maze and books Sandra got him (Haley loved her gifts too).
After awhile, Mason got sleepy and I rocked him a little and put him to bed. Haley and Nikki went to play with the princess play doh. Mark, Ryan, and I helped Andrew carry the train set upstairs to the playroom. While Andrew put it together, I straightened the playroom. Then I went downstairs to watch Haley play with the play doh. Nikki was making sugar cookies.
I loved watching her make faces as she worked/played.
It takes a lot of concentration to get it just right. She made beautiful princess dresses while I wrote her name.
Andrew helped Nikki finish the sugar cookies. Well, actually, he just poured more flour when she needed it.
When Nikki got the dough ready, Haley helped her cut out cookies.
They were making sweet Christmas memories.
Ryan and Mark relaxed watching a movie.
Ryan loves me taking his picture. NOT!
Haley finished helping her Mom, then she went upstairs to see the train set put together.
She jumped up and down watching the train go around the track. It thrilled me! :)
After awhile, Mason woke and was in the sweetest mood. Mark trotted him on the "horsie", and Mason smiled and clapped.
He is such a little darling! I had gotten a picture of him earlier pushing Haley's stroller.
Ahhh I love that little blue-eyed sweetheart! And I love my sweet brown eyed Haleybug. :)
I fed them supper and washed the dishes for Nikki. I wanted to leave eveything clean because Nikki's parents were coming in a couple of days. I always try to do as much as I can to help her out.
I am so thankful we had such a wonderful Christmas with them! I was exhausted but thrilled and thankful for the day!
On our way home, we had to stop at Walmart to get a base ring for our toilet. That morning before we left for church, we noticed the front bathroom toilet leaking. After we came home from church and before we left to go to Andrew's, Ryan removed the toilet and cleaned off the old ring. When we got home that night, he put the new ring on and set the toilet back in place. He is awesome!!!! We didn't even have to go overnight not using the front bathroom. I love him so, so much!!!!!
