The Joy of Holidays

I would like to think that our first Christmas in our own place this year went pretty well.
We were lucky enough to have Helene and Jeremy come to visit as well as have my parents here a few days before Helene got her and then on Christmas morning (thank heavens).
We didn't do any Christmas eve present opening, but we did do scones and honey butter. MMMMMM!!!!! It was so delicious. I'm glad James had the idea to do that for our Christmas Eve tradition.
Christmas morning as Emjae, Julie and I waited for my parents to arrive we got to open our Christmas Stockings. Note to self for next year: Not as many chocolates for Emjae. She just loved pulling everything out and then putting it back in. Around 9:15 Mom and Dad got here just as we were finishing pulling out and putting back everything from our stockings.

Mom helped hold Julie while I helped unwrap everything I wrapped, while James handed out the presents. Emjae did pretty well not opening any presents until Christmas morning. We had all the presents out for almost 2 weeks. Emjae opened a few presents and then she just wanted to play with the ones she had opened and forgot about the rest, until we opened and set up her table and chairs.




Julie tried to open the first one but she only ripped the paper as far as needed to get it to her mouth.


After we finished opening presents

James and I made breakfast burritos for everyone.
We also had pumpkin roll and almond rolls and muddy buddy's and another kind of corn chex mix that was given to us. Probably not the healthiest to eat all those things, but hey its the holidays.
The rest of the day consisted of playing Rock Band, playing Halo ODST, watching the Lakers get there butts kicked and just relaxing.


Poor Emjae and Julie are both sick though. Julie has a congested cough and runny nose. Emjae on the other hand has high fevers, runny nose, congested cough and difficulty breathing at night. We were up at 2:30 last night with her. I feel so horrible. It's the first time Emjae has been sick. It feels so horrible when you have done everything you can and you don't know what else to do.
We just gave her a blessing and doped her up on medicine and about 20 to 30 minutes later she was feeling better enough to want to get up and pick out a movie to watch. I figured go ahead, you will be able to relax and hopefully fall back asleep. James stayed up with her and they both fell asleep on the couch. The love of a dad!