Christmas

This was our first year to have Christmas at our very own house! In the past we've been visiting or living with someone else so I was pretty excited. Christmas Eve was spent in Shinsel family tradition at a Berry family dinner (Maxine's family). This year it was at Wes and Terri's, and Sydney seemed to have lots of fun dancing and being the center of attention before dinner. When we got home I tried to read a story with different Christmas objects about the true meaning of Christmas but she was too wiggly.... maybe next year. In the morning, Sydney slept in even later than usual and had Andy and I waiting for her to wake up until 10. We let her play with her Santa gifts, then had breakfast, did stockings, and finally got to the rest of the presents. We decided beforehand we didn't want to hurry so we let her take all her toys out of the packages and play with them while we opened other stuff. It was really low key and fun. I was surprised by how contained Sydney was and patiently waited until we told her she could open another gift. After we were finished at our house we went over the Grandma and Papa Shinsel's house to do presents there. By that time, Sydney knew what to do, but she still was pretty patient and helped hand other people their presents until it was her turn. Her favorite present is a keyboard/microphone from Grandma Pack. She loves loves loves it! I have to admit I feel pretty proud of myself for knowing she would love it so much because for a lot of other things I'm not sure. Andy got all outfitted for his new Kinect with several games and I got almost everything on my list! I felt really happy to just be our family and do things our way on Christmas. On Christmas, Sydney also got to meet her new cousin Kaylee for the first time. The Huntsmans came over for Christmas dinner. We made it there just in time after Sydney's nap :). Sydney and Kaylee are gonna have to work on sharing but they were definetely interested in each other, and I think they will be good friends. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of this part of our day since we forgot our camera at home (It was charging). Enjoy the videos and pictures.

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