The Johnson Family Christmas Show!

Christmas at our house was typically chaotic, yet great! The kids were so excited about Santa! On Christmas Eve, Cooper was so excited he just couldn't contain himself! We kept using the, "You better be good before Santa comes tonight" line for as long as we possibly could. It got to the point that he would know that he was misbehaving and before I even had a chance to say anything to him he would ask me NOT to tell Santa :)

We finally got the kids situated and in bed, did all of the wrapping and set out all of their stuff! Didn't seem like much when it was all neat and organized, but then the following morning after all of the boxes were opened and their stuff was strewn all over the living room floor, it was A LOT more than it originally seemed!

It's funny how different brothers and sisters can be. Cooper came downstairs and tore through everything in about 5 min! Gracie spotted the Dance with Dora game and required to play it immediately. That has won the prize as her favorite toy! Throughout the rest of the morning, she would happen to notice something else that was hers and say, "Hey... look at that!"

We are one of those that you will every other year or so see out on the road on Christmas day searching for the few open spots to grab some necessities. We drove down to good ole Franklin for the Johnson Family Christmas Show. Taking place this year at Todd and Amy's. It makes for a LONG, stressful day, but to sit at home and not see my family would be the less attractive of the two :) The kids LOVE seeing their cousins and stuff too! We loaded up with our "phone ears" aka mp3 music players and headphones Santa brought us, our leapster video games, a "life saver" (light saber) and Princess Beautiful, and drove in the MUCH needed rain down for the fun! Along the way I realized I'd forgotten about lunch, so would you believe that Starbucks is open on Christmas!! Figures that they would be, but I sure was glad!

Christmas is different for every family. For me, I've always celebrated Christmas as an adult and a child with a TON of people! As a kid, we always went to my grandmothers who ended up having 53 grandchildren and great-grandchildren before she passed! That made for an interesting get together. Now, my own family is well on their way to that size as there were 21 of us with just my mom, dad, brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews yesterday. And we are NOT the calm and quiet bunch! So it's loud, chaotic, and loads of fun!

After A LOT of VERY good food (my sister-in-law Amy really is a very good cook), we passed out gifts to the kids, played our usual Dirty Santa game amongst the adults, which is always fun, and then headed home at around 8pm! My Gracie girl is a homebody as it is, and by that time she was doing nothing but constantly telling me OVER...and OVER.. that she wanted to go home!

So I would say that it made for another successful year! Unfortunately, we spent our morning after at the Dr's office as both Cooper and Gracie have been fighting off what I had I guess for the last week. The remaining part of the day will HOPEFULLY be a relaxing one!!

For some reason, I'm not so sure about that with all of these new toys around!!

Until next time...

K!