Our Little Croft Christmas

This Christmas was a really good one. Despite my (somewhat failing) efforts at a festive holiday activity filled advent calendar, it didn't really feel like Christmas until it was here, but that's OK.

On the 23rd Oliver and my mom made Christmas cut-out cookies. For some reason that turned the table for me (and my mom I think) and made it actually seem like Christmas. It was fun, it was cute. Oliver had a blast and couldn't make more cookies fast enough. I've honestly never seen him so happy to be such a mess, he had flour all over himself and didn't care (normally he would freak out about that). The cookies were charmingly imperfect.

Christmas Eve was a busy and fun day. While Nathan slept, Oliver and I went to my mom's house to decorate the cookies, make other Christmas treats, and such. When Nathan woke up he came over and he and Oliver made the cutest little snow man ever! Immediately following which we went to Pud and Ude's house for dinner. Nathan's family and the Mauerhans were at dinner and we had a nice, fun evening together. From there Nathan went to work (yay for overtime pay!) and I went home, put Oliver to bed, and finished "getting ready" for Christmas.

Christmas Day:

Oliver was very excited about the basketball hoop Santa brought him - he literally skipped across the room to it! He was so excited to finally open the presents under the tree. Other gifts he especially loved were his Transformer (and Nathan's too) and the remote control bus Uncle Jason & Aunt Shelley sent him. I was excited to get 4 seasons of Scrubs from Nathan - he must love me.

In the afternoon Nathan's family came over to visit for an hour or so. Oliver had fun playing with Steven and Caitlin - was excited about the "candy book" (the Candy Cane book) and movie he got from Grandma Pam and Grandpa Dave.

The late afternoon/evening was spent at my mom's house - where we opened presents and then had a huge and delicious dinner. Oliver was super excited to get a great big Mack that carries his cars, as well as his fire truck jammies, and another (smaller and easier) Transformer from Ryan and Ashly. Nathan and I played a card game with Ryan and Ashly that lasted forever but was really fun, while my mom kept an eye on Ollie. By the time the game ended we were all tired and it was plenty past Oliver's bed time so that's where the night ended.

It was a good, happy, fun, busy Christmas.