Christmas Festivities...

It was quite the busy Christmas weekend for all!  There was cookie baking, Christmas lights, train rides, presents, Mass, visits with family & friends, presents, cookies for Santa, oh and did we mention presents?

Weekend festivities started on Friday as we had the day off - Mommy & Alexander baked some cookies for Santa before we headed to Mimi & Papi's house.  From there, we then went with them to Edaville Railroad for our annual visit to see the Christmas lights and ride the train.  It wasn't raining like last year and because it was right before Christmas, it wasn't as busy either - so overall a great night to go.

 Christmas Eve started with some traditional fried dough (which Alexander wasn't that interested in), followed by some presents.  We then headed to Christmas Eve mass at St. Marks in which Alexander did extremely well. He loved watching the children tell the story of the birth of Christ and was very enthralled. 

After mass, we headed to our annual stop at our restaurant before going to Dennis & Mary's.  It was eerily quiet and we almost had the place to ourselves.  We then headed over to Dennis & Mary's where Alexander was very excited to play with Kyle & Kaileen.  After some goofing around, dinner & pictures, it was time to get into jammies and head home to ensure we were in bed for Santa!

This is what is looked like after Santa stopped by

Christmas morning was the BEST!  Not only did Alexander surprise me by sleeping until 7:05am but he was so excited with everything he opened.  He rushed downstairs (nearly beating me down), and hugged his presents!  He was beyond delighted when he saw his "Green Hot Wheel" bike, even more so when he saw his name on the back!  The quote of the day was "I've wanted this my whole life" - it made everything so special that he was so excited! 

Santa brought him lots of goodies which he loved all of them, well except the pajamas.  He even loved going thru his stocking to see how much candy was there.

After presents, we hung out for a bit relaxing.  Alexander & Daddy played their new Wii baseball game.  The boys then got ready to head over to uncle Matt's house for more presents.  After presents at Matt's, they then headed to uncle Steven's for dinner & time with the boys.  Alexander played some more Wii and had a great afternoon hanging out with all the cousins.

Monday was a perfect day!  It was a very low-key, chill out kind of day.  Alexander stayed in his pajamas all day, we played Wii, played games, cuddles, watched movies/tv.  Perfect way to end a great yet busy weekend!