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!
Christmas Afternoon we headed to Tim and Susan's house. I think we may have set a record for how quickly the gifts were opened there! A little over half way through, Grandad warned the boys that there wasn't a never ending supply of presents! After they had everything opened the boys ran around like maniacs for a while before Jenny and family headed off to see Brett's side. We got Tyler down for his much needed nap and the rest of us enjoyed watching Home Alone, which Timmy had never seen before and really liked. Christmas Dinner was delicious, Susan outdid herself, like she does every year. On top of the delicious dinner, there were five different homemade desserts! Yes, I was in heaven!
We took it easy on Christmas Eve Day last year, visiting briefly at Elena's and Tim Sr's before going to the children's service at Timmy's preschool's church. The kids get to dress up like a Shepard or Angel and there is more singing then talking.
When we got home I made slice and bake sugar cookies for Santa while we watched a Christmas movie. After the movie, Timmy wrote a letter to Santa, thanking him for sending Fuzzy, our elf, to keep an eye on them before Christmas. Timmy also suggested putting out water for the Reindeer, along with their carrots and the milk and cookies for Santa. Then Timmy was easy to send to bed, but Tyler wasn't quite ready to go down. He helped Santa out by licking the icing off a few cookies before he went to bed.
Christmas morning Timmy hoped out of bed and waited fairly patiently while we got Tyler up and changed. Timmy sort of waited for Tyler to come down the stairs too.
Anticipation!
A trampoline was top on Timmy's wish list
Checking out how many cookies Santa ate and getting started on presents!
Tyler opened his Light Saber first, Timmy went frantically searching for a matching box!
So fun!
More fun stuff!
The Angry Birds game got the biggest squeal of delight of all of Christmas!
Should have gotten two of those...!
Lucky Mommy
Timmy passing out our gifts he had picked out for us
First round complete!
We headed to Elena and Al's for breakfast, visiting and presents.
Griffin-ing!
Then to Tim and Susan's for visiting, presents, and dinner.
