We are feeling very blessed to have just wrapped up a wonderful Christmas here at the Caruth house. We spent our first Christmas at home and enjoyed having the extra time to hang out as a family and start some traditions of our own. On Christmas Eve day the boys happily helped bake and decorate cookies for Santa, played board games and gave Skeeter, our elf on the shelf, some last minute reminders about how good they were. After nap we headed to mass, which was lovely if you exclude one hilarious/embarrassing moment courtesy of Gavin. While heading to the bathroom with Joel he spotted our friends the Springer's in the back and yelled out, "Derek I'm going to change my big poop!". A lot of of people heard this and turned around laughing. Joel laughs about it now but was pretty embarrassed in the moment. (As I'm sure Gavin will be when we remind him of this story in 15 yrs!) Christmas Eve night we let the boys open 1 gift each. It just so happened to be their new Santa jammies and a few new bed time stories! The perfect thing to wear while getting Santa and the reindeer's treats set out before heading to bed!
Christmas morning the boys were very happy to see that the cookies and carrots were eaten up. Skeeter left them a sweet little good-bye note too. Gavin occaisionally looks and asks about him, but cheers up when we remind him he went back to the north pole with Santa. The boys were really sweet exchanging gifts with each other and agreed that their brother did a good job picking out a gift for them. They were really interested in what the other had opened. Owen would show Gavin his gifts and explain what they were and Gavin would say things like, "Oh that's a good one". After all the gifts were open we had Santa pancakes and then the boys spent the morning playing and setting up all the new toys. Both boys were excited about the gifts they'd received. When I asked them which gift was their very favorite they both named the gifts they had requested from Santa, the race track and the Diego underwear. Good thing they got them!
After lunch Grandpa Carroll and Grandma Cyndie arrived from Iowa. Then after nap Uncle Jennon, Aunt Beth, Cooper and Drew joined us and we had Caruth Christmas at our house. It was a bit chaotic trying to keep the 3 older boys from ripping paper off of everything at once, but so fun to see how excited they were. Owen was really excited to get a scooter and Gavin and Cooper both received new tool benches. Even little Drew helped open some of his own gifts. We had a wonderful dinner and had fun playing the new game Carroll and Cyndie brought up.
Later this week we will head to IA to celebrate and visit with Grandma Theresie, Aunt Cailin, Uncle Adam, Uncle Daniel, Grandma Jeanie and Grandpa Mike. We will also get to see to go to Flattery Christmas in Fort Dodge. We can't wait to see everyone! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas as well! Enjoy the photos!
No comments:
Post a Comment