CHRISTMAS 2004

A FABULOUS 2 WEEKS

This was truly a wonderful holiday season. We had many celebrations this year! Jason had a lot of days off during the season, so we were able to spend a lot of time together.
The season started in the begining of December with 2 work Christmas parties, holiday brunches with friends. Needless to say ALOT of food.
Christmas Eve we spent here in our home with our new tradition (starting last year) of having a shrimp boil dinner. This is a tradition that stems from my childhood.
Luckily, Jude and Lily are still too young to wake up to early on Christmas morning!
We started our day around 7:10am. ( I unfortunately had to spend 2 1/2 hours that morning at work).
Santa brought the children gifts set by the tree. Jude received a kitchen from Santa, a leap pad with books and then many other presents from others. Lily had peek a boo blocks and stackable stars from Santa, as well as gifts from others. Her favorite part of course, is the paper.
We traveled to Jason's parents for Chirstmas dinner and presents with approximatley 15 grandchildren and 15 adults.
My parents arrived on Wednesday, December 29. We had another Christmas celebration on Thursday, December 30th.
We all loved their visit.
We had a happy New Year!
Now it is back to the real world!