WOW - I cannot believe Christmas 2015 has come and gone! As cliche as it sounds - it's always so amazing to me that so much time, energy and money is put into something that lasts about 2 hours! I love every minute of it, but goodness, it goes so fast!
This year the boys requests from the big guy were:
Landon - the Hotwheels Ultimate Garage
Zane - his own computer
Zane could never tell us
why he wanted his own computer. We never entertained the idea of it anyway, but were curious as to his reasons. We have a family computer that he NEVER uses and he has an ipad which is pretty much a computer, so it was funny to hear him request that. I did tell him that he can always ask Santa for it, but he needed to remember that you don't always get what you ask for and that Santa
does have a budget :)
This year the night before the boys bunked up together in Zane's room (per their request). I gave them some rules...they could get up whenever they wanted in the morning, but they were not to go downstairs or wake us up until 7:30. It worked perfectly! No idea what time they woke up, but at 7:30 on the dot, they came in to get us; it was lovely! I let each of the boys fill a small stocking the night before for each other and while they were sleeping that night, I laid them under the tree in Zane's room - they had fun opening up those by themselves in the morning while they waited for 7:30!
Landon got his request of the Hotwheel Ultimate Garage. Zane did not get his computer. He did get a Chelsea soccer jersey that he wanted and we also gifted him my dad's iphone (he doesn't know it was grandpa's; Santa brought it, duh). The reason Zane got an iphone is because it pairs with his continuous glucose monitor and will send his numbers into the cloud and we can then get them on our phones. He will not need this feature while he's at school, but it definitely opens up a lot of opportunity for him in regards to playdates, birthday parties, sporting events etc where one of us will not be with him. He's VERY good at managing his D when we aren't around, but he's still 8 and it's still good that we are able to keep an eye on him while he's out of our care.
After our gifts were all open, we waited for Josh's parents to arrive and the fun continued! It was a great day and we are so thankful and blessed and hope to never take that for granted.
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| Zane couldn't stop sending texts out, they were so adorable! |
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| My MIL made matching aprons for the boys! |
