Christmas Week

Christmas week was a little crazy. The boys were off school and Drew was working crazy hours in order to take a few days after Christmas off for our trip to Oklahoma. Luckily we got out of the house on Tuesday the 21st for Kiersten's 5th Birthday. We had to miss her friend party at Chuck E Cheese because Matthew, Molly and I were battling bad colds. Her family party was perfect. Pete and Jill ordered Dominos (Andrew's favorite thing on Earth) and the kids just played and played. Of course Matthew decided not to take a nap that day and was quite the pill but luckily no one seemed to care. Kiersten got some really fun gifts and was so cute when she opened each gift. Happy 5th Birthday K!

Christmas Eve we started getting snow about 7am. It was so exciting to know that we were going to have a white Christmas! We took Max to the place we were boarding him because they closed at noon. We were sad to leave him but knew it would make our trip to Oklahoma a lot easier. Plus he got to stay at the "Ritz" of pet hotels because we started calling too late and this was the only place available. (He got a scone every morning and yogurt every evening:))

After we dropped Max off we ran a few last minute errands and then went home to play in the snow a little bit. This was Molly's first time playing in the snow. She loved it and of course the boys did too.

We tried to get everyone down for naps early because we knew we were going to have to leave our house at 3:00 to get a seat at 4:30 mass. We made it to mass just in time to get a seat and we were so thankful. I've never seen so many people in one place! After mass we headed over to Grandma and Poppa's for their annual Christmas Eve Party. Christmas Eve is my favorite night, I love the anticipation! We had Drew's favorite, beef tenderloin as well as many other delicious foods. We were the first to leave but knew we had a busy/early Christmas Day ahead of us. The kids went to bed perfectly knowing the sooner they went to sleep the sooner Santa would arrive!

Drew and I spend the rest of the night packing and organizing so we would be prepared to hit the road as early as possible the next day.