We spent Christmas Eve with Tim's brother John and his family. It was so much fun. We read the story of Jesus' birth and had a birthday cake for Jesus. Then the kids opened a couple presents. Xavier loved playing with his cousins. His favorite things that night were trying on every hat he could find, banging on the drums, playing Zach's guitar, and discovering his cousin's ball basket.
We had a wonderful Christmas morning opening presents. Xavier was still a little out of it when we walked down the stairs, but as soon as his eyes saw the basketball hoop he was beside himself. All he could say was "BASKETBALL!!!" as enthusiastically and as loud as he could. Then he looked in the middle of our living room and caught site of the train tracks and Thomas. You could tell he was torn. I could tell he was trying to decide which one to play with first. He headed for Thomas and found that there were two Thomas trains. So he picked both of them up and threw them in the basketball hoop. Apparently he thought of a solution to play with both. Problem solved. He didn't even want to open the presents we got him he was so content with the train and basketball hoop. If only I knew that before I bought his other presents. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the hoop and thanks John and Reva for the train set. They have been a huge hit!
Christmas Day Eve we had our friends, The Miners and the Oversons over for a yummy dinner. We all pitched in with food so it was less stress on one person. It was great to spend some time with such awesome friends.
We spent a couple days at Grandma and Grandpa Richardson's house. We did our traditional visit to Riverton Mall in Grand Rapids and spent an afternoon at Craig's Cruisers which has racing cars, lazer tag, and all sorts of arcade games. Xavier pretty much went around trying out all the steering wheels on the arcade games and played the basketball game with Grandpa. He loved it!
New Year's Eve was held at Tim's oldest sisters house, Jenny. Thanks Jenny for hosting a great party; lots of yummy food, great company, fun games, and good laughs.
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and we hope you have a healthy and prosperous new year ahead. We love you all. Hope you enjoy the slide show of our adventures this season.
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