Holiday rush!

Whew, I cannot believe Christmas is over, and the New year is just around the corner!

Jacob (unfortunately) caught another bug and started running fever late Tuesday night. Nothing extreme, but enough to wonder what he was coming down with right before Christmas. He ended up running low grade fever for a few days and has a nasty cough, but was good to go today. I am just glad we avoided another trip to the doctor, more antibiotics, or even worse, a shot!!!

We have been going nonstop since Wednesday. Our favorite little niece came in from Seattle with her mommy and daddy (Mikes' sister and bro-in-law) early in the AM. We ,however, did not see them until Thursday. We spent most of Wednesday cleaning the house, running to Walmart, going to church and attending parties=)
Jacob and I had made a gingerbread train early in the day and put it out for Santas' reindeer. (He wanted to sample the gingerbread and candy, but the kit was one I found deep in the depths of the pantry, from last year. It was pretty well past it's expiration date, but served it's purpose nicely). We (of course) baked cookies for Santa and a cake for baby Jesus as well.

On Christmas morning, Mike was way too excited and could not stand it, so we went to wake Jacob up at 6:45 in the am to see what Santa had left.

Jacob was quite excited about his new car and wanted to ride it right away! We sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and then started tearing open the other presents! Jacob willingly opened his other gifts and patiently watched us open ours. Santa was very generous and left mommy a nice new laptop! Daddy got a new watch. You gotta love St. Nick.

Jacob got a big kick out of seeing that Santa ate all of his cookies, and left just one with a bite taken out of it! He asked if he could have the rest of Santas' cookie. Of course I let him, it was Christmas for petes sake!

We then jumped in the car and hopped from house to house, town to town visiting family and friends. We finally got to see Ms Emma and her parents, whom we have not seen since March.

On Friday night we left Jacob with the neighbors kids and their wonderful sitter to go out to dinner and a movie. It was very nice (but very odd) to go out for a nice evening without children!

Today we headed back in to town to spend more time with cousin Emma and her family. Jacob and Emma get along so well. Jacob stayed the night with Emma and their Grancie. Mike and I are back home, exhausted. Grancie is bringing Jake home tomorrow.

I will post some pictures from the week tomorrow. I hope everyone had as awesome a Christmas as we did.