christmas day

Best Christmas yet! Our day went like this:

6 am- James wakes up and Amie realizes that Steve never came to bed. Last time she saw him he was playing LOTR on the x-box with his brothers. Amie wanders the house to see which couch he slept on but can't find him anywhere. The house is quiet and everyone is sleeping

7 am- Amie puts James back to bed and decides that since she is up she might as well shower

8 am- Amie tries to find Steve again but to no avail. Everyone is still sleeping. Amie decides to curl her hair for lack of anything else to do.

9 am- James wakes up and Amie hears movement upstairs! The little girls are awake. She asks them if they know where Steve is but no one does. They look for him

9:30 am- Steve is finally located on the bottom bunk of Josh's bed where Josh usually sleeps. Josh is on the top bunk. They had stayed up till 3 am playing x-box. Amie and the girls wake everyone with James' help and Christmas morning officially begins at the Glauser house! Presents are opened, wrapping paper is thrown at each other, and James gets a mini reeses open using only his mouth.

 11:00 am- We head over to the Ostler house where Amie's brothers are barely waking up. We eat a delicious breakfast of cinnamon rolls, hot chocolate and fruit. We read the Christmas story from Luke.

 11:30 am- Amie's dad tells us that instead of lots of presents this year we are going to spend a week in Akumal, Mexico! We jump for joy! James tries to get a Linder ball open like he did the Reeses but is unsuccessful. Instead he crawls around with it in his mouth and won't let anyone take it away from him.

12:30 pm- We head to Steve's grandma Metcalf's house and eat a second breakfast of sausage souffle and raspberry ring. We exchange gifts and enjoy each other's company until James, who hasn't napped yet, throws a major fit.

2:00 pm- We go back to Glauser's for naptime (for more than just one of us)

4:00 pm- James wakes up and we go to my Grandma Taylor's house for a lunch/dinner

5:30 pm- We go home to pack a bit , eat dinner and drop James off at his Ostler grandparents house so we can enjoy a movie in a theater ( can't remember the last time that happened)

7:00 pm- We gorge ourselves on Christmas candy while we watch Les Miserables. Amie doesn't shed a tear, but Steve ugly cries through the whole thing. 

I don't remember what time we got home but it was late. We put James to bed and finished packing for Mexico and finally are able to go to bed. 

1:30 am- Just as Amie's eyes are closing she hears James from the next room. She hopes that next year for Christmas he will give her the gift of sleeping through the night.

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2013!