Christmas Eve to 11 am Christmas Day
It was a white Christmas this year. Not exactly the perfect snow you see in all the Christmas movies...with 35-50 mph winds and actual temperatures in the teens, it was more like windy ice blowing around.
Because of the weather situation we could not go outside, so the boys played on lego.com (Star Wars games, and we uploaded more creations to their online gallery), watched The Polar Express and other shows on TV. We also passed the time by tracking Santa on the NORAD website. We attended the 3 pm Christmas Eve service and ate dinner at Oma and Papa's...beef stew, pasta, vegetables and ice cream for dessert. Papa had to do all four newscasts (4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm and 10 pm), but was able to come home between the 6 and 10 pm news and eat dinner with us.
Christmas Day the boys woke up at 4:59 am. I know this because they came into our room and Zach said "Santa left us $1 in our stocking!" We deterred them to watching TV for about 30 minutes, but couldn't hold them back any longer.
Favorite Gifts: Wii, Super Mario Bros Wii game, Air Hogs zero gravity laser remote control car, and LEGO construction site.
Opening the LEGO set.
In their stockings were seven pairs of socks each (Santa knew we were in desperate need of socks), a mini LEGO racer, balloon racer car, mini markers, a notepad, chapstick, candy and $3.
We were done opening presents about 6 am. The boys disappeared downstairs to put together the LEGO set. I got ready for the day and did a little cooking. Scott cleaned. We had three and half hours to kill before brunch!
We ate a Christmas brunch of pancakes, egg casserole, fruit salad and garlic hash browns with Oma and Papa, Grandma Agnes and Great Aunt Virginia.
Adam and Zach showing Great Aunt Virginia, Great Grandma Agnes and Oma the completed LEGO construction site.
Despite the Kansas Department of Transportation's online road map, which showed I-35 interstate ice and snow packed, we decided to start to Kansas City anyway. I did pack peanut butter sandwiches, snacks and extra water...you know...just in case.
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