Mathews Casa

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Christmas Morning at our house

Christmas morning started at 5:40am at the Mathews' house. Abby woke up and then Jack followed soon after. He had forgotten Santa was coming and made no effort to go into the living room. If only we could have convinced them to go back to bed, we could have celebrated Christmas at 7am. Like NORMAL families, but alas, I gave birth to two roosters. They TOTALLY get that from Doug's side of the family because I come from a family of koalas. Did you know that koalas can sleep up to 20 hours in one day?!?! Who knew? I found that out when I googled "animals that sleep the most" because my mom would be offended if I said I came from a family of slugs. Koalas sound so much better. Anyway, back to Christmas.

Since Jack forgot about Santa, I was able to get the cameras all ready and film him and Abby walking into the living room. Now, there was not one present under the tree Christmas eve, so Christmas morning was a big change as in there were presents. Jack, being the observant little man he is, didn't notice anything. When we asked if Santa had been he looked around and said, "nope". Thanks for the buzz kill Jack. He got more interested when I told him to check to see if Santa ate his cookies. Santa had left a few bites, so Jack wanted to know if he could eat the remaining cookies. It was pretty funny. It was Abby who noticed the stockings on the couch. So, they started there. They both really enjoyed going through all of the stocking stuffers.

After that, we started opening presents. Jack's "big" present was a shopping cart, with groceries and a scanner. Abby's "big" present was a bike with training wheels. It is the smallest bike in the world. Of course, whatever Jack opened, Abby wanted and vice verse. I would say the biggest hit was the Dora ball tent. They both loved that. Next year will be even more fun as Jack will really "get" Christmas, I am sure Abby will too. She picks up on things pretty quickly. She was a pro trick or treating after getting candy at the first house. She had it all figured out after that.

Jack scarfing down Santa's leftovers

Christmas 2010

Ah, stockings!

Abby loved her music eggs

Abby's doll

Jack's present to me was an ornament. He picked it out himself at school. Daddy got a frame.

The hit!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Ironing

I have hated ironing for as long as I could remember. I just wasn't any good at it. The iron I used was the one Doug had when I met him. 14 years ago. It wasn't until my mom came over and used my iron and told me it was broken did I realize why I wasn't any good at ironing. It helps to have a working iron. Now I see how it actually DOES iron out the wrinkles. Amazing.

Random pictures

Just some cute pictures.

After Jack's Christmas Party

Jack's new scooter from Grandaddy

Abby not happy Dada isn't holding her

Children's Museum moon sand

Painting at the Children's Museum

Playing with our moon sand

Abby wanted to wear her wings

Jack wanted to be a wizard

Abby decided she wanted to wear a tutu. First time ever.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Christmas in Dahlonega December 10th

I am a little late on this post, I blame Santa.

We met Doug's family in Dahlonega to cut down our Christmas tree and spend the night. We all had a great time. Jack and Abby were a little crabby from being sick for a month straight, but other than that, they behaved fairly well. Well, except Abby refused to nap on the way there and Jack stayed up until 10pm that night, so he was a little "off" the following morning.

First, we checked out Santa. Jack flat-out refused to get in his lap. Even with Eleanor telling him it was ok, he wasn't convinced. Neither Martha nor Abby were impressed with Santa either. Eleanor was right at home and told Santa all of her wishes.

After Santa, we headed over to the tree farm. Abby did take a tiny nap on the way to the tree farm, so we let her sleep in the car. We used our phones as a baby monitor. It was a SMALL family tree farm, so don't worry!

From there we went to dinner. Everything was yummy and all of the children were fairly well behaved. When we got back to the room it even snowed a bit!! It was a fabulous evening and we were right on the square of Dahlonega. So nice. The following morning we opened presents. Minus a few melt-downs from the two sibling toddlers, all was good.

Santa!