Well, I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! I know I sure did. In fact, I had 5 of them! Here are the recaps on all five celebrations:
1. Santa's visit to 6th Street (Christmas Eve) - Well, my three-year-old nephew, Clayton must have been a very good boy this year as he got a whole slew of presents and boy did he ever enjoy ripping off the paper on the presents. The highlight of this Christmas was the Walle and Eve robots from the Disney film Walle he received. The adults even enjoyed these toys.
2. A Very Merry Rusca Christmas (Christmas Day) - This celebration involved the hub's step-dad and his family (brothers and sisters join the grandparents) for a potluck dinner celebration. The three highlights were Grandma Berts' tamales, Louie's medicine and of course, the annual white elephant ($40-$60) gift exchange. I had 2 bottles of liquor stolen from me until I ended up with a lovely bottle of vodka. The hub ended up with a bottle of liquor too.
3. Internal Christmas (Christmas Day, evening) - This is where we open presents with the hub's immediate family such as his parents, brother and family and presents the hub and I got each other. Gift highlights: The bottle of perfume named after me which I found in Paris and which the hub remembered me liking. A brand new camera just in time for our trip to DisneyWorld in January. An iTouch for the hub. And we both got this cool movie projector for our backyard and some spending money for our Disney trip. I also got this super cool map from the hub. He made this map of our house and put a big x on the map. I had to wait till I got home and search our house for the present. He sure knows how to come up with cool surprises.
4. Gift Bags O'Plenty (Day after Christmas) was a surprise get together. The hub's step-mom planned this Walt Disney World trip for all of us in January as our Christmas gift and also to celebrate our nephew's first trip to Walt Disney World. Well, actually it's his second trip, as he was in my sister-in-law's belly once before. hehe When we got to Sanger we called her up and scheduled a time for her and the hub's dad to come over to talk about the trip. You see, the hub's entire family is going including his mom and step-dad. Talk about good family relations!! Anyhoo, I guess the hub's dad has good taste in picking out amazing ladies. Brian's mum made a ton of food for the impromptu meeting. But the meeting totally turned into another holiday party. Now the gift bags o'plenty factored in when the hub's step-mom brought each of us two separate gift bags but both Disney themed related. I am not even sure where to begin in describing the gift bags other then to say they were totally and completely amazing! She had t-shirts made that had our names on them. 3 different ones!!! The bags had other goodies in them too. I was jealous the super cute backpack that our little nephew received. I couldn't believe all the work that must have went into these bags and how incredibly thoughtful they were!!! Anyhoo, after looking through the bags everyone was just dying to go to Disney. Clayton said it best "I want to go tonight momma!"
5. The fifth and last Christmas (Day After, the Day After Christmas, evening) is one we we always do with the hub's mom's family. After a yummy dinner and gift exchange our normally quiet celebration turned into WW wrestling!!! Clayton went at it with Austin and Alan went at it with Christian. I stayed on the sidelines and played barbies and transformers with the totally sweet Madison. She had gotten a purple barbie corvette and I must say I had always wanted one of those when I was little.
With 5 action packed Christmas' I wasn't sure how we had time for anything else but we did manage to see the hub's cousin's new house which I am totally jealous of their brand new kitchen with lovely new granite counters! And we also had a very nice lunch with his Grandma. Now it's back to a light work week, counting the days till the Disney trip/cruise and also, trying to lose as much weight as possible so I can put on a bathing suit and not have someone yell "Whale!!"
1. Santa's visit to 6th Street (Christmas Eve) - Well, my three-year-old nephew, Clayton must have been a very good boy this year as he got a whole slew of presents and boy did he ever enjoy ripping off the paper on the presents. The highlight of this Christmas was the Walle and Eve robots from the Disney film Walle he received. The adults even enjoyed these toys.
2. A Very Merry Rusca Christmas (Christmas Day) - This celebration involved the hub's step-dad and his family (brothers and sisters join the grandparents) for a potluck dinner celebration. The three highlights were Grandma Berts' tamales, Louie's medicine and of course, the annual white elephant ($40-$60) gift exchange. I had 2 bottles of liquor stolen from me until I ended up with a lovely bottle of vodka. The hub ended up with a bottle of liquor too.
3. Internal Christmas (Christmas Day, evening) - This is where we open presents with the hub's immediate family such as his parents, brother and family and presents the hub and I got each other. Gift highlights: The bottle of perfume named after me which I found in Paris and which the hub remembered me liking. A brand new camera just in time for our trip to DisneyWorld in January. An iTouch for the hub. And we both got this cool movie projector for our backyard and some spending money for our Disney trip. I also got this super cool map from the hub. He made this map of our house and put a big x on the map. I had to wait till I got home and search our house for the present. He sure knows how to come up with cool surprises.
4. Gift Bags O'Plenty (Day after Christmas) was a surprise get together. The hub's step-mom planned this Walt Disney World trip for all of us in January as our Christmas gift and also to celebrate our nephew's first trip to Walt Disney World. Well, actually it's his second trip, as he was in my sister-in-law's belly once before. hehe When we got to Sanger we called her up and scheduled a time for her and the hub's dad to come over to talk about the trip. You see, the hub's entire family is going including his mom and step-dad. Talk about good family relations!! Anyhoo, I guess the hub's dad has good taste in picking out amazing ladies. Brian's mum made a ton of food for the impromptu meeting. But the meeting totally turned into another holiday party. Now the gift bags o'plenty factored in when the hub's step-mom brought each of us two separate gift bags but both Disney themed related. I am not even sure where to begin in describing the gift bags other then to say they were totally and completely amazing! She had t-shirts made that had our names on them. 3 different ones!!! The bags had other goodies in them too. I was jealous the super cute backpack that our little nephew received. I couldn't believe all the work that must have went into these bags and how incredibly thoughtful they were!!! Anyhoo, after looking through the bags everyone was just dying to go to Disney. Clayton said it best "I want to go tonight momma!"
5. The fifth and last Christmas (Day After, the Day After Christmas, evening) is one we we always do with the hub's mom's family. After a yummy dinner and gift exchange our normally quiet celebration turned into WW wrestling!!! Clayton went at it with Austin and Alan went at it with Christian. I stayed on the sidelines and played barbies and transformers with the totally sweet Madison. She had gotten a purple barbie corvette and I must say I had always wanted one of those when I was little.
With 5 action packed Christmas' I wasn't sure how we had time for anything else but we did manage to see the hub's cousin's new house which I am totally jealous of their brand new kitchen with lovely new granite counters! And we also had a very nice lunch with his Grandma. Now it's back to a light work week, counting the days till the Disney trip/cruise and also, trying to lose as much weight as possible so I can put on a bathing suit and not have someone yell "Whale!!"
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