Been and gone for another year.

Christmas Eve day was hard - it didn't feel at all like Christmas, the kids were fighting and unhelpful and my dh and my sister had to work. It was me....and the kids.... :X
Thankfully Christmas Eve was better. The kidlets opened some little presents - from Kimbo and from their Dad's work, then we picked DH up from work and went to look at the Christmas lights. There was a full moon - it was awesome!

On Christmas morning our wonderful son graced us with his presence somewhere around 3am, but after "just having a look" he went back to bed!

Christmas day was a bit more rushed than we'd have liked - us at home, then over to my folks, then back here to do breakfast with my sister's family. We had to rush off to the caravan park to book in for our "mini holiday" and then Chris took us over to the restaurant for lunch. We spent a really nice afternoon eating and drinking and sitting by the pool whilst the kids swam.
Maybe next year we'll do dinner out instead of lunch - so that the children have more time to play with their new toys.

However, when all is said and done it was a great day! The kids were over the moon with their presents and they were well behaved at lunch (although Tys was more interested in swimming than eating!) It was nice to have a lovely sunny, swimming kind of day after last year's chilly day!

All that's left now is to have the kids write some thank you notes....and take down the tree.