Ho Ho Ho, and Now I'm 30

Christmas weekend was full of events for us. Walter and I served at church on Christmas Eve. It was the first time either of us had EVER given of our time to volunteer at church on a holiday. And it was so rewarding. It made the day that much more enjoyable to welcome others and (hopefully) help enrich their (and our) worship experience. Walter was ushering and I was working the hospitality coffee bar. I have never made so much coffee in my life! I think I earned my barista stripes that afternoon.

Christmas Eve we enjoyed a yum dinner at my parent's house and did our gift exchange with family. We also celebrated my 30th Birthday which was on Christmas Day. The lemon cake was fabulous.

 (Yes, his finger is up his nose. It's his new thing. Hopefully it's a short phase!)

( Is that a bow on my little boy? At least it's blue!)

The boys received many nice things for Christmas, but hands down, empty boxes were the favorite item. Isn't that how it always is!!

Christmas Day I awoke to the boys bringing me birthday cards in bed. Walter let them pick out their own cards so X got me a Dora card and Wes got me a basketball card. I'm one lucky lady! My hubs also surprised me with a watch for my birthday.

Later in the day we celebrated with Walter's family. X was super excited to get a Big Wheel. I think it took Walter the better part of an hour to put it together though :) It was pretty funny because the night before we joked about how many people would be up late putting together gifts for their kids. We were so glad that wasn't us. Guess we spoke too soon!

We rounded out the day with our traditional spaghetti dinner at my gma's house. My gma had this ridiculously loud walking singing Santa on the coffee table. The boys LOVED it. Everyone else wanted to chuck it out the window!

Thanks to our families for your generosity towards us and the boys. It was a very Merry Christmas.