Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Nixes!

kids arranged their nativity figures

Santa was so fun this year!  We have a rule at our house: Santa brings three gifts (to reinforce the true meaning of Christmas AND to try and contain the chaos).  James got an ipad, the game Guess Who and a Star Wars origami book--it looks small, but was a huge hit!  James has asked for an ipad for about two/three years, so he was so excited to see it Christmas morning.  He kept saying he felt like he was dreaming b/c he couldn't believe he actually had an ipad.

Natalie received a dollhouse, a hula hoop and these bead things that you iron.

Luke only asked for one thing: Legos (Lego Yoda, Lego Batman, Lego helicopter, etc.).  Santa wanted to broaden his interests and thought a Thomas the Train table would be a good idea......Luke has yet to warm to the gift.  (He also received Legos and a Lego helicopter set).  He played with it briefly, but has spent more time playing dollhouse with Natalie

Luke's reaction to the train table

He even preferred a box with "pop pop" to the train table

After a morning of playing, unwrapping and playing some more, he loaded up in the new car (Suburban, which was a life saver on this trip) and headed to MS!

Outtakes from Christmas Eve mass:  (Mom made James a bow tie out of the same fabric as Luke's pants, and she mailed it the Monday before Christmas.  I was convinced it had been lost in the mail b/c at Christmas Eve we still didn't have a bow tie--or a back up outfit.  Well, we had planned to attend 3:00 Christmas Eve mass, but for some reason we couldn't get it together.  So as we were loading up to go to 5:30 mass, Brad picked up the package that was just delivered, and it contained the bow tie!)