CHRISTMAS 2011

Christmas has come and gone... geez, WHERE has 2011 gone?

Our much desired plans to fly to Utah for Christmas fell through cos we're poor, and somebody decided that it should cost as much fly to another state, as it does to fly to another country... seriously...

So, we had our own, fun little Christmas here at home.
Last year, I was sooo anxious about spending Christmas alone... meaning just us 3 Geddes's, but this year I knew it would be great even if we were alone. And it was...

Christmas eve we decorated sugar cookies with mr Luke... he was going to need to use these to bribe Santa to still leave gifts under the tree, because he'd been such a stinker all week.
After Santa (mommy..lol) ate about 6 large sugar cookies, my mood was sufficiently sweetened that I decided not to sell his toys, but in fact let him have them on Christmas morning.

I know they're not the prettiest cookies, but they were painted with great enthusiasm by a sugar addicted toddler and his equally sugar addicted parents :)

The cookie bribe worked.. Santa came :)

Christmas morning was super fun. Luke is old enough now, to know that gifts are AWESOME, and he went straight in for the kill, shredding paper and getting into everything.
He got some fun stuff (courtesy of Targets buy one get one 50% off sales...Santa knows where to shop!)

Luke got to open Kates toys too :)

Christmas? What's all the fuss about? lol..

Checking out her new toy... we bought something she'd "grow into" because really, what does a 3 month old actually play with???

Of course Christmas wouldn't be complete without a melt down :)

I bought 2 packs of flash cards from the dollar store to put in Luke's stocking.. He likes to point to bright pictures and have you tell him what they are... surprisingly the cheap stocking stuffers have been well played with already :)

After church, we just enjoyed a fun, chilled afternoon playing with new toys, eating beef stew (yes, we had beef stew for Christmas dinner... WHY?... because it's YUMMY, and the crock pot does all the work for me so that I can enjoy Christmas with my family and not in the kitchen cooking, and just because I said so... lol) and watching random shows and movies on Netflix, now viewed on our TV through Jakes new Apple TV (his Christmas present to himself...)

I'm super excited for Christmas 2012... Luke will be super psyched by then, and he'll probably be old enough to better understand all the santa stuff etc, which will make it way more fun... this year he saw the fat, hairy man in a red suit at the mall, took one look and was heading in the opposite direction.. yeah, I must say that I find the overgrown facial hair kinda creepy too... lol.

Now, on to 2012... I think it's going to be a great year... and I'm so ready for it :)