Christmas 2010

It is a good thing that we had decided a few months ago that we weren't going anywhere for Christmas this year. At my doctor's appointment on the Tuesday before Christmas I was informed that being pregnant with twins and in the 3rd trimester meant I wasn't allowed to travel anywhere. So we had a pretty low-key Christmas at home.

Christmas morning it was just the 3 of us. Santa brought Jacob a basketball hoop that he immediately started playing with.

The horse was from Justin's aunt and uncle. We aren't sure how long it has been in the family, but we know that Justin's cousins kids played with it when they were smaller. Who knows - maybe Justin played on it when he was little too. At first Jacob wasn't so interested in the horse - he just wanted to play basketball. Then he warmed up to the idea.

It took some work, but we finally got Jacob to start pulling things out of his stocking. Santa brought him some bath toys and some cars in his stocking.

We gave Jacob a Thomas the Tank Engine play tent. Jacob loves to climb into his tent - especially when Colby goes in with him. For some reason he thinks it is particularly funny for Colby to be in the tent with him.

Justin's dad ordered things for us that he had shipped directly to us already gift-wrapped. Here was one of Justin's gifts and Justin saying that it is his.

Here is a close-up of the tag on the gift. Looks like Amazon got their tags a little messed up.

Somewhere out there, someone named Robin got a gift whose tag said "To Justin From Santa".

We had a great Christmas and we finally got a Wii. We have been wanting one for a while so Justin was pretty excited to see that we had gotten one (since I'm the one that bought it, it wasn't a surprise for me).

Here is Jacob watching one of us play something on the Wii. He is too little to play, but he really seems to enjoy watching.

My parents got to our house around 1 in the afternoon on Christmas Day. We are really grateful that they came because we had a great Christmas dinner thanks to them. I mainly sat around while others worked on dinner.

It was nice to just stay at home for Christmas this year, but we will be happy in the future when we are able to be with more of our family for Christmas.