Christmas 2011

I think I ended Christmas night still not feeling the full warmth of Christmas this year. Sad, but true. I have higher hopes for next year. :)

Of course, the girls were completely the opposite! I think at first Chloe was disappointed Santa only brought a total of four packages. But she didn't show it. John wanted them to open our presents before Santa's. I think he is a smart man. ;)  We got Chloe a new Betta tank; she was so happy! We gave Jesse, yet another, remote control car! She has received several over the years and something happens to make the stop working (i.e. John driving it off the front steps at full speed!) or it just never worked. Her last one she had to be within six inches for it work. The new one seems to be working great and she is very happy!

The girls opened their smaller package from Santa. Jesse thought Santa had a warped sense of humor by giving her a mouse pad, with Gerber daisies, for her "imaginary laptop". Personally, I thought it was hysterical. Chloe was confused as to why Santa would bring her a TV wall mount for her TV that clearly could not be hung on the wall. Oh, so much fun! Then they opened their big boxes. Jesse received a laptop and Chloe a brand new LED TV with a built in DVD player. Then Chloe excitedly exclaimed, "that is why Santa only brought four packages!!" Smart girl. ;)

By dinner last night, the laptop was up and running and the TV was hanging on the wall. Each girl in her own room doing her own thing. Okay, so that was my Christmas present...quiet. :) My parents bought me a cookie press and a Wilton turn table for cake decorating. Yeah! John bought me two pair of pajamas, Jesse gave me a Peanuts coffee mug and Chloe gave me a Peanuts notepad for my pocketbook. I was also surprised with a Mater and Zen Master Pitty cars. Pitty was MY favorite character in the new movie, especially how Mater related to him. So funny!! Everyone got a Mattel car this year!

Chloe bought Jesse a Stitch car at Disney World and I bought John a Indian Jones car. Jesse and Chloe both received two Cars 2 cars from Santa in their stockings. It was a Mattel car Christmas! lol

Jesse also made Chloe a scarf and Chloe added three more rubber ducks to Jesse's collection. I believe they were both thrilled with everything they received. My parents gave them the pajamas they had been bugging me about at Target (I knew they were getting them). Jesse wanted a pair with Scottish Terriers and Chloe wanted a pair with owls. Owls seem to be her new obsession. John keeps telling her she needs to drop an obsession before she gets a new one, because she is running out of shelf space. He is just too fun!

John had a great Christmas. He received Jenga!, a table top Cars 2 pinball machine, Big Buck Hunter Pro shooting game, a dart board and some chocolate! Oh, yeah. He is happy shooting at the aliens trying to steal his cows and trying to shoot Pappy!!! Poor Pappy!!

Everything said and done we had a great Christmas.