Christmas 2013

We had a nice Christmas this year. Once again, we waited until a few days before Christmas to get a tree. Andrew started to sound a little worried that we wouldn't get a tree this year, but we made it happen. Not as many choices (but 50% off), but we found a nice one.

For Christmas eve, we went to the children's pageant mass at church. The church is always beautiful this time of year and it is always crowded. My three never want to participate but it is fun to see all the other little kids dressed up as angels and shepherds.

We came home and had a delicious crab dinner. Then the kids set to work to put up the tree and decorate it. Once Vic got it in the stand and I pulled out the boxes, they put up the lights and the decorations.

The next morning the kids were up with the sun. (They are under strict orders to not get up if it is still dark outside after they got up at 4am one year and then fell asleep during church). After a flurry of opening presents, they were quite happy. This year seemed to have a decided sports theme. Dylan got a Tom Brady jersey, and both boys got 49ers stuff and cards for the batting cages. Andrew also received a football board game. Gina was happy with an architect design kit and a screen printing kit. They also received an animation kit for doing stop motion animation. So far, no movies but lots of photos. I need to find the software to put all the photos together.

When it was all done, we ended up going out to the movies to see the animated movie Frozen. The movie, based on the story The Snow Queen, was very entertaining. We all enjoyed it. Then it was off for Chinese food. The food was great though the kitchen forgot to make the Chinese fried chicken, the only dish Andrew was willing to try. So his dinner was white rice and Sprite. Hopefully, we will do better in that department next year.