Suprise Christmas

We had two suprises this year for christmas...

First, Victor suprised me with not having to work Christmas eve. Apparently he had known for a while and just decided to not tell me.
On christmas eve he had the kids not nap so they would go to bed early. Instead I thought "are you crazy? I'm the one who will have to deal with grumpy kids all evening while you are at work" (again he knew i didn't)
So around 4pm (he usually leaves at 6:15pm) I sent him out to pick up a swing for Bentlee that we found on craigslist. Bentlee has a 2 hour "grumpy time" before bed every night so i thought that might help.  Anyway back to the story, I sent him out at 4 and he got the swing and ended up at the store for a few things. He finally got home around 5:15 and I expected him to go take a shower and get ready for work.  5:30, 5:45, still just doing things around the house and playing with the kids. Meanwhile I ws helping the kids make Santa cookies and I was getting a snack bag together for victor and his work buddies while they were at work. Finally 5:50 he's in my way in the kitchen and I ask him if he was going to shower.  He gets a weird look on his face and says nope. I ask him if he's going and he says nope... So now i'm hopong that he got someone to take his place or at least called in so he didn't get in trouble. After letting me worry for a minute he tells me that no one was working and they all had the night off. It was such a nice suprise and I was glad he was staying home with us but I was so flustered for the next 30 minutes because I'd had everything planned out and had mentally prepared myself to do christmas preparations by myself. So after I got my bearings straight I decided to make it a fun night and we decided to invite Jordan, Grandma and Grandpa over for santa cookies and Hot chocolate.

We rolled the big screen in to the dining room so we could play wii and turned a christmas special on the other tv and hung out for a few hours. Finally 8pm rolled around and we put the kids to bed and finished the wrapping and santa duties before heading to bed ourselves.


Then Christmas morning... I was up at 5 feeding bentlee and around 5:30 cyrus got up to go potty and remembered that it was christmas. He came to me and said "merry Christmas mom". I had him climb into bed with daddy and told him i'd be in there when i was finished. By the time I climbed back into bed Victor was awake and excited for christmas. Cyrus was content relaxing in bed and Gabi was no where near waking up but victor was up and dressed and waiting. So we got gabi up and all headed to open presents.

THe kids had gone through their stockings and opened one present when the doorbell rang.  WE both looked at eachother having No idea who it was and wondering who in their right mind would ring a doorbell at 6am. of course the kids ran to the door and victor made sure they were no where near the door when he opened it. Clearly afraid of what was on the other side.

LUCKILY, it was just Grandma Janice, Papa Kim, Kyle and Bret. Our second suprise.

They decided that it just wouldn't be christmas without kids so they came to spend the day. WE continued opening presents and the kids Loved everything they got.

Cyrus: Buz Lightyear, Woody, 2 big transformers, handy manny's toolbox and tools, sid the science kids microphone, a phone, a shopping cart, Super why

Gabi: Jesse (from toy story), a shopping cart, a new bike (big wheels), princess presto and alpha pig from super why, a microphone and phone, a new movie, a big tub with play doh and tools

I cant thing of what else but they loved it all and they especially like the shopping carts because now they can load up all their toys and cart them around the whole house.

For the next hour the boys all layed wii and Grandma, papa and the kids played play doh. I got an hour or so of time to myself. I cleaned up a little getting all the wrapping paper and boxes out of the way and read the letters from kimi that came with the dvd's.

Luckily we had planned to cook a big christmas meal and had plenty to share so we made it for Lunch and were able to share it with everyone that came. We even got to use our new (new to us) bigger table that we got from Janice.

Overall a great christmas this year. I'm so glad that we were able to spend it in our new house and to be able to share it with both sets of grandparents. We're so blessed to have so much family who love and care about us.

Oh I forgot to mention what Victor and I got. Victor got a new xbox360 Modern Warfare edition. He had debated for the longest time whether or not to take it back because he knew it would take up a lot of his time and that it would bother me and the kids and he didn't want that to happen. WEll he did end up keeping it and has only played for maybe an hour since he has had it. I'm proud of him for knowing that he can get that way and that he has set limits for himself so it doesn't interfere with the rest of our lives.

I got a software for my cricut that is called Sure Cuts A Lot. It is a software for the computer that allows me to cut virtually anything! NO more cartridges to buy... Yay! I've played with it a tiny bit and Love it so far. It has led me to look up a lot of tutorials how to use it and i've learned so many new tricks and techniques that i cant wait to try. I even ordered some vinyl to do cute sayings and things around my house. We've been using contact paper up to now and the vinyl will be so much nicer when it comes to getting it on the wall right. I'm excited to play with it some more and see what else i can do.