Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our family of Four!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas season and rings in the New Year with family and loved ones!

Sorry this is a bit late, but better late than never!  I've been trying hard to get caught up on the blogging before we entered the new year but we've just had so much going on.  And after all the activity stopped, so did I!  To tell you the truth, I've kind of been dreading writing about Christmas because there are sooo many details, and since I started Christmas shopping so early this year I was just plain Christmas'd out.  I told John that this was hopefully our toughest Christmas with a newly potty-trained 2 1/2 year old and a little boy who just became instantly mobile!  These two were a handful!

I was able to snag some great prices on Christmas gifts since I started before Black Friday and watched daily deals as they came out.  We even finished our shopping early this year - I think the week before Christmas - and even got everything wrapped a couple days before.

We were able to spend Christmas Eve and Day with both of our immediate families but my favorite was Christmas Eve morning.  Both John and I were lucky enough to have that day off so we decided that Santa would come that morning so we could have just a few hours with us four before all the hustle started.  Megan and I got up early but Owen slept in to give us time to make pancakes!  We had a blast opening and playing with presents before heading off to church and then to my parents' house.  Christmas morning we were at my parents' church since we like to play our brass instruments in church and have been doing it for several years now.  When that was over we made our way to John's parents' where we finished off the day with five grandchildren this year!

Since Christmas is best through the eyes of a little child I think I am going to let Megan and Owen tell their own stories.  Stay tuned to read what these two Christmas angels have to say!