What a crazy Christmas this year! It was full of traveling for us with an unexpected bilzzard in the mix. Our Christmas celebrations started early this year. We had our first Christmas on December 5th. This was just for Andrew, Cannon, and I. We had something every weekend so that was the only time we could have our little family Christmas. This year I decided it would be good for Cannon to realize that he not only receives presents but can give them as well. I picked out a present for Andrew and one for myself. I had Cannon help me wrap Andrew's beard trimmer and keep telling him over and over that this was his present to Daddy. Andrew did the same with some slippers for me. Cannon was so excited to give us our presents! He still remembers that those are the presents he got for us. We limit the amount of presents we get Cannon because he has about 10 people that buy for him. So we picked about three things we wanted to get him. He got a new robe and houseshoes, pjs, a colorwonders paint set, and the grand finale was a shark vacuum! Yep! You read that right, we got our child a vacuum cleaner! HE LOVES IT! I don't know why but his is obsessed with vacuums and always wants to use my big one. It is so heavy to push for him that I thought getting a lightweight battery operated one would be best. He uses it everyday!
The next Christmas was with the Mileur Family the weekend of December 18th. Andrew's mom and dad, Mason, Brenden, Kristen, Caeden, and Rachel all came. We had fun exchanging gifts and watching Cannon and Caeden play. We also had a yummy Christmas meal. We got a really cute video of Cannon and Caeden that I will have to post. On Monday morning we headed to Pryor. I rode there with my inlaws because Andrew had to work until Wednesday. I got to spend time with my family and see Candice and Cooper.
On Thursday, Christmas Eve, we had the Dees Family coming for our annual get together. A lot of things happened that day to change our plans. First the weather forecast was saying lots of snow! So we planned on having everyone come earlier for the festivities. Then we got a call saying Jane-Jane and Papa couldn't make it at all because she had to go to the hospital to get platelets. This was a huge disappointment to us all. It wouldn't be the same without them there. So the only people who ended up making it was Uncle Larry and Aunt Norma, and Uncle Scott. We still had a great time. We went to the Christmas Eve candlelight service. Cannon got to hold a candle of his own. It was a little scary but he did pretty well! He was a little upset when we blew out the flame at the end. He said 'Hey! Give me more fire!" We got back home and had a wonderful dinner then exchanged our secret santa gifts. Dana and Michael came earlier that day but had to leave before the weather got to bad. We watched that night as the weather went from bad to worse! It was an unbelieveable sight. We woke up to a BEAUTIFUL white Christmas! I think there was around a foot of snow. We opened presents and then I bundled Cannon up to play in the snow. He didn't have any gloves though. That was a big mistake. He lasted about 5 minutes before his little hands started stinging. You would have thought the child was serioulsy injured the way he was crying! We finally got his hands thawled out and he was as good as new! Then it was time to take the dangerous journey to Tulsa to do Christmas at my Mom's. The 45 minute drive to Tulsa took about 2 hours! Once again we missed out on some of our family because of the weather. But we quickly opened presents there because we had to get back on the rode. We had to make it back to Texas so that we could head out on our Mileur Family ski trip the next day. The 4 hour trip back home took 6! It was not a fun drive! But God watched over us and we made it home safetly. I will post about our ski trip maybe tomorrow!
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