The big guy says Merry Christmas from the Joyces!
Connor
Favorite gift to give: Orioles Santa cap to GraemeFavorite gift to receive: Under Armour metal spike baseball cleats
Graeme
Favorite gift to give: Credit Card Monopoly
Favorite gift to receive: Nerd book from Mom.
Just kidding: definitely ipod touch.
Owen
Just kidding: definitely ipod touch.
Owen
Favorite gift to receive: DSiFavorite gift to give: "The Nutty Professor" movie and snack basket for Dad
Reilly
Favorite gift to receive: DSi to share with Owen,first ipod from Aunt Meg
Favorite gift to give: ball books for Pierce
Pierce loves his coloring book from Nana best of all.
I was laughing so hard I cried over the "Report Card" the boys made me. I got the highest scores in "Encouraging" and "Overall Awesomeness" but was scored lowest in the winter marking period for serving soup regularly.
Hopefully I made up for it by serving cookies for breakfast.
Dad gave each of the boys his OWN 2009 complete set of baseball cards. Go e-bay Dad! They were thrilled!
" I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."Martin Luther King
Now who's gonna clean up this mess?P.S.
And Santa really did come. However, only half a gift: a large bucket of baseballs. The note he left explained that due to our huge snowstorm (a real white Christmas in MD) rooftop landings were tricky this year and the professional grade batting tee he'd planned to give the boys slipped out of his sleigh and plummeted to the ground somewhere over Delaware. Only a heroic dive by Blitzen had saved the balls. He promised to send elves out in search of the batting tee and mail it to us via the post office when it was located.
We waited several weeks, started to doubt the elves, and then, one day while I was out running errands, our mailman Bob delivered the package to Connor, just like this:
That must have been some tumble from the sleigh! So, as I said, we're keeping Christmas in our hearts all year long and we hope you do, too.
Ohhh, now I want some hot chocolate and sugar cookies!!!
ReplyDeleteAlways better late than never. Maybe I'll spend some time tomorrow and post our Christmas pics!
ReplyDeleteSWEET! love those gifts that finally come..or rather are finally found by the elves over Deleware was it?
ReplyDeleteRemind me to NOT let your boys give me a report card..I would probably fail every subject, especially soup for diner! yummy!
And I am sooo happy to see I'm not the only one playing catch up with her blog!
Cookies for breakfast??????!!!!!! Okay, so even Nana never went THAT far; well, maybe the traditional breakfast treat, made with lots of cinnamon, butter and sugar was just as "off"!!!!!!!!! And, I really can't believe those elves found that box that had fallen from the sleigh!!! Look WHAT A MESS!!! Looks like your Christmas was wonderful and great and fun and........... xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
ReplyDeleteThe best Christmas post ever!!! I love the favorite to give and receive parts. Very fun story about Santa and the tee. And I loved seeing pictures of gorgeous Amber (you are not supposed to look that good on Christmas morning girl!) How cute of your boys to give you a report card, very clever. And the cute little bug cleaning at the end... priceless!
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