Pre-Christmas festivities with the fam

As I suspected, this Christmas was my favorite one yet. I am convinced that there are not that many greater joys than seeing Christmas through the eyes of your child. Even though Nico is still a little too young to know what is completely going on, he melted my heart, and it was a joy to live it all through him. There were many other highlights this Christmas, with the highest point being that my grandparents came down to spend it with us Texans. They have not been down here since they moved back up to Michigan when I was little, and it was a real blessing to spend some more quality time with them. My parents and Ryan all stayed at our house for the week, so that was nice to be surrounded by family again.

Our little Christmas break did start with some disappointing news with Nico being diagnosed with the FLU, but luckily, it was just a little 3 day, subtle version. $104 Tamiflu did the trick, though, and he dealt with it like a champ. He was just a little off for a day or two, and wasn't his usual happy, outgoing self.

Friday was the start of the fun, because my parents and Ryan got into town that afternoon. We just hung out at the house and ordered pizza.




Saturday brought about a little more excitement, because we had a get together at our place! The whole gang was here for a crab boil. It was a really fun night of hanging out and frying off our taste buds with some spicy food!

 

 

 

Sunday was a lazy day filled with football watching, last minute Christmas shopping, and Chili's takeout for dinner. Such boring people we were.



And Nico is back to his happy self!