Cooper's 1st Christmas

two handsome brothers

Cooper trying to take down the Christmas tree.Carter and Bubba riding in Carter and Cooper's new wagon from Grandma and Grandpa

We had a mostly relaxing Christmas. We spent Christmas eve over at my parent's house to eat our traditional pizza and watch a movie (this year was Wall-e) after our church service. When we got home the boys got to open 1 present under the tree (which was their Christmas pj's) then it was time for bed. After sleeping in, we all got up and ate some yummy breakfast casserole that I made and opened presents and stockings. We don't really do a lot of presents, just a few stocking stuffers (candy of course) and 1 or 2 things to unwrap. We want the boys to think of Christmas as giving and not getting. We just want to follow the example that was given to us, by God giving us the most important thing of all, His only baby boy. Not that we have a problem with how any body else 'does' Christmas. And on top of all that, the kids don't really 'need' anything so the movies and little cars got the reaction we were looking for anyway.

So after all that, we decided to start a new Christmas tradition this year of sitting in the ER and watching 'the Christmas movie'. This is why I said at the beginning that is was a 'mostly relaxing Christmas. Matthew hadn't been feeling well and had been waking up the past 2 nights looking for some pain killers. On Christmas Eve I told him that I thought it was either strep or an ear infection, either way he needed some antibiotics and that he needed to find a walk in clinic somewhere to get it checked out. Well I guess it was more important to him for us to make it to our church for the service than to mess with all that. So...Christmas day I finally drug him to the ER where they confirmed that it was indeed an ear infection and prescribed an antibiotic and some pain meds. :)

We did make it back to my parents house for most of the festivities that evening. Now that all my sisters have significant others (married or engaged) we played kind of a newlywed game that was really fun. Some of the couples enrolled in some counseling after we were done though. ;)

Hope you had a peaceful Christmas and are ready for the new year!