Don’t you love relaxing Christmas holidays? I try my best not to over schedule our family with events, parties and projects during December, it just happens automatically anyway. This year was not too bad!
A few snippets from our Christmas holidays. Nataliya and Anton delivered a super cool present for us!! This huge Moravian star! It took a bit of effort for Robert but it turned out beautifully!
Look at that! It’s our center piece on the patio:)
On Christmas Eve we set out our luminaries at the curb. It’s a fun tradition that our local Girl Scouts have been doing for a few years now in the neighborhood.
And we also went to Hillridge Farms to see the light show with our great friends, the Woolstenhulmes. Katie and I.
The hayride was the highlight of the experience, as usual. Our favorite part is always the “I Am Proud To Be An American” part of the ride where the crazy people like us stand up on cue:)
Oh yes, we also celebrated Mark’s birthday a bit early, getting his friends together for a pizza, games and a movie time... kind of low-key.
I don’t believe this is a picture of our Christmas morning, probably just a nice picture a few days before. I like to wrap our gifts early as it keeps it more doable and pretty.
Oh yeah..the aftermath of Christmas morning. See? Not so pretty anymore. This is Mark’s chair. He got a lot of work out Nike clothes (all he wants to wear) and a cooler for his tennis matches, US Open book and some cream soda.
This looks like Robert’s spot. He got a couple of pairs of new shoes (awesome running shoes), Palmier cookies and a bunch of other awesome things.
Work in progress. The kids didn’t get a TON of stuff..I just like to wrap small gifts separately so it looks more fun.
Alex, as always, is wondering if he again got socks and books only.
We are obviously not very consistent in how we take our Christmas morning pictures because there are no pictures of me or Katya;).
Oh yes, and here is a special picture of the boys actually baking something during the holidays. I am grateful that Robert helps them to learn how to bake! That evening we also had sausages and potato bake, trying to keep things super simple.
Yes, yes, I know... my blog posts used to be quite a bit more exciting when we lived overseas. Even simple Christmas celebrations sounded exotic because we were living in a different county. Nevertheless, this is a great life too:) We have definitely grown used to it and are choosing to enjoy the relaxing bits of it.
Lyana.
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