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Two Fish, One Fish, and Red Fish

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We started the festivites off by going to our traditional Christmas eve gathering at my grandparents. This year Lovely N's family came too. We had a great dinner, homemade candy, played games, and exchanged gifts.

The great grandparents

Bonding with cousins

Getting ready to go to bed so Santa can come! Four generations of jammies.

Mimi always sleeps over at my parents house like we do every year. This year was especially fun because we got to play Santa. My brother J and I stayed up late putting together a few practical joke gifts that we thought were pretty funny.

Christmas morning was a lot of excitment. Watching Red Fish was a blast. (For pictures see my last post) She was spoiled rotten by all of her grandparents and got a rocking horse, play kitchen, giant dog, and some books and accessories.

Wrestling Uncle Joshy for the giant puppy

A guitar from Uncle M- Red Fish has been using it to jam along to Guitar Hero with her daddy.

Red Fish's santa gifts

Two Fish, Red Fish, Grandma, and Little S

On Christmas night we went to Aunt L's for wonderful dinner and fun company. Little S loves Red Fish so much and they are great buddies. I'm pretty sure Little S covered Red Fish's face completely in chap stick aka "meecup" and Red Fish was happy to sit and chair and let her do it. Two Fish and I spent some time playing wii games against our nephew D. Aunt L had made a fun pepermint cake that was so tasty Red Fish licked her plate afterwards. The only downside to all this merriment was the very long drive home in the snow.

Overall I have to say this was one of my favorite Christmases. Red Fish was so hilarious to watch and we were so lucky to see so much of our family. I got to talk to my brother M who is currently serving a mission for the LDS church in Vine Del Mar Chile. He has been gone for 18 months and we only get to talk to him a couple times a year so it was fun to hear his voice. He has this cheesy little chilean accent and his English has suffered from speaking so much Spanish so we had to tease him alot.

I got pretty spoiled on Christmas as well with a new bedspread and coats among other things. Two Fish got a wii and guitar hero so he has been having a great time trying to play his new games.

Our celebrations aren't through yet because we still have a week full of festivities ahead with Two Fish's brother M coming into town with his daughter. We're looking forward to gingerbread houses, family dinners, and a new years party! The best part of this season is sharing it with all of our friends and family. We are truly blessed to be surrounded by so many people we love.