For Christmas last year I gave Tim and his fellow Redskins enthusiasts, Timmy, Tyler, Tim Sr, and Chris, an experience at the Redskins indoor training facility. They called it a combine, because they got to compete in a lot of the activities that they do during the combine, followed by a game of two hand touch.
Along with the on-field activities they also got to eat lunch in the Redskins cafeteria, meet some past and present players, Morgan Moses, Darrel Young, and Logan Paulson, and Tim won an autographed football with his trivia knowledge. One of the big highlights was getting to see, and pose with, the Super Bowl Trophies.
I'm officially on the last post for 2014: Christmas! We went to Ohio the weekend before Christmas. When we first got to Ohio we left the boys with my parents at Ron's, and Tim and I went out to have dinner and drinks with Darren and Erika. It was such a nice visit, and the food was delicious! The next day we went to our favorite Ohio place for watching the Redskins games, and the Shultz' all came to watch at least part of it with us! Then we all went to Marleen's house for dinner and more visiting.
The next day we did some shopping and took Mom and Dad to the same restaurant Darren and Erika had taken us to! Later we had dinner, visited, and opened presents with Dale, Paula, and M&M.
On Christmas Eve we attended church service at UCP, both boys chose to be shepherds this year. I was pleased at how intently they paid attention to the service.
When we got home I started setting up cookies and milk for Santa, Timmy had the great idea to put out carrots for each reindeer and water for them, and Santa as well.
Then something really awesome happened while Timmy was getting ready for bed.
Poor Tyler was using the toilet when Timmy spotted Santa, luckily Tyler saw him on his way back up the pipestem!
On Christmas Morning we made the kiddos wait for us to go upstairs. Timmy rushed up and checked to see how much Santa ate. Tyler was dragging, he was not feeling very well. They both waited, reasonably patiently, for Uncle Chris to arrive before starting to open gifts.
After presents and a delicious breakfast we went to Tim and Susan's. The pictures do not show the extent of wrapping paper strewn about!
After present opening, Jenny and family went to see the Hedges, and Tyler and I went home for a nap! We rallied in time to get back to Tim and Susan's for a delicious Christmas dinner.
The evening of December 26th, Mom and Dad arrived at our house from Ohio, and Joe came over too to open gifts. (Tyler had been napping on the recliner before they arrived, but was wide awake within moments!)
The next day, we went to see VT play in the Military Bowl in Maryland, as part of our Christmas gift from my parents. It was a wonderful Christmas!
We have been busy with lots of fun activities getting ready for Christmas! We started with decorating the day after Thanksgiving, and then did the tree on Saturday. I was impressed with how long Timmy and Tyler stuck with helping me. When they did burn out they snuggled up with Tim and watched Frosty while I finished up.
I was passing out non-breakable ornaments, Tyler was stock piling them instead of putting them on the tree! Every so often I would have to tell him he couldn't have any more until he used the ones in his pile!
I made this for the boys last Christmas and a matching one for our nephews, they enjoyed putting it up but have not been redecorating it this year!
The following weekend we went to visit with Santa! It was a rainy day so the cookie decorating was under the overhang and after Santa arrived by boat, he met with the kids in the book store. Santa told Timmy and Tyler that he loved their shirts! We had been practicing their lists and they told Santa what they wanted. (We had to give Tyler some guidance, as his only wish for Christmas was for a "gun that shoots money"! He's pretty excited for his items now though, and I haven't heard him mention the money gun since seeing Santa!)
This was our 5th year seeing Santa at this event. I sent him this as a Thank you for always taking his time to see us here!
That Monday we went to Ice! at National Harbor with Elena, Al, Becky, and Chris. It was a great display and we had a lot of fun. We had to pull Timmy and Tyler out of the slides! This year they added an area where they showed how the display is made, it was pretty neat.
This past weekend Brayden and Bryce spent the night on Friday, so the 4 cousins all put on their matching PJ's and cuddled up with Grammy and PawPaw to watch Rudolph, PawPaw's favorite.
On Sunday I took the boys to Aunt Jenny's house for Cookie decorating with their cousins, and their cousins other cousins! They had a lot of fun decorating gingerbread boys and sugar cookies. Tyler decorated one for me and then ate a plain one! Timmy decorated 3 or 4 cookies before they all decided it was time to run around. It was a lot of fun!
We've also had a few movie nights, Tim and I went to a neighborhood cocktail party, I went to a cookie exchange, and I've had a few nights of wrapping presents! Tyler had his class party already and Timmy's will be Friday, the day we leave for Ohio for the weekend. So class party pictures will have to wait til we return!
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