Adventures Of The Blaufuss Family: Christmas Eve & Christmas 2012 Florida

Being the month of December is crazy with all the holiday fun and decorating, I'm going to do 1 long post on all of our home activities that had to do with Christmas!

Most of you know the month of December was rough as far as sickies go. The kids were sick for 2 weeks + a few days. One of their sickie days we needed to get out of the house and get some fresh air. We decided this would be a great time to head out and pick out a Christmas tree. Its out in the open where we can't really spread any germs and the boys wouldn't be so crazy:) see good idea, huh?!?!

We have always had a truck to bring a Christmas tree home, but this time we had to tie it to the top of Jeff's car! I had to have a picture of this! We tried to make it funny, but the kids were just wanting to sit:(

This collage is of us bringing it in and when we decorated it. Thanks to Jt helping me while T man slept.

Christmas Eve: Ended up being super low key. I woke up feeling a little weird and thought for sure I had what the kids had. Jt and I had made cookie dough the night before so we could bake cookies and pass them around to neighbors on Christmas Eve, but that didn't happen. I ended up in bed with everything the flu brings except for the vomiting, thank god. I felt horrible cause Jt kept checking on me and asking if we were even going to bake for Santa:( He said if we don't bake for Santa, he wont come.

By 3 o'clock I had had enough and Jeff brought me some Advil, by 4 o'clock I was up and felt 100% better except for the sweats.

So Jeffrey being the great daddy he is, baked cookies with the boys while I laid in bed. I did manage to sneak out and take a few pictures. They were so happy and Jeff even added more flour to the sticky dough. He was awesome! Definitely great memories for the boys!

That night, they decorated Santa's cookies and Jt spread his reindeer food on the lawn. He wasn't this excited about Christmas last year, so this year was very exciting for him and us as well. Just seeing him so happy and into it all was enough for me!

These 2 pictures below are also on Christmas Eve, but with my normal camera and not my phone camera.

Decorating and Santa's plate of cookies and carrots for the reindeer. I kept telling Jt to lay off the frosting cause he's going to give Santa a belly ache;)

Gifts are all out and the stockings were filled!

Christmas morning: Jeff told me Jt was up at 3 am with all the lights on just standing there staring at the tree. When Jeff got up to see what what going on, Jt was adamant about staying up until everyone woke up. Luckily he went back to sleep and we ended up having to wake him that morning! Definitely no groggy kids that morning! It was a straight shot from bed to tree! Oh and some screaming in there!

We really got to spoil them this being we weren't with family in California. We usually just do 3 gifts and let everyone else buy.
Between Grandma C & Papa L, Papa T, Grandma K & Papa A & Us, they made out this year. Us too, Jeff and I actually bought for each other this year. We normally don't so this was a treat!

Ts gift from Jt
Jeff's mom and step dad came over around noon after the boys had some time to get their crazies out, but they were waiting for them to come! Grandma and papa brought 1 gift for them to open so they were super excited.

We just all hung out and cooked a yummy sea food dinner. Scallops, shrimp, tri-tip and asparagus! It was so yummy!

It was definitely nice having family with us on what we would consider a chaotic day normally for us. So just having them here with us on this quiet day was great.