One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. ~Andy Rooney

We're still attempting to clean up the messes of Christmas. It was a good Christmas.

Christmas Eve we had at our house...which I think is becoming a tradition since no one will let me do dinner for EVERYONE on Christmas day. It's never anything over the top we just have a variety of appetizers and cold cuts, but there's always a ton of food (no one in my family knows how to do a small meal).

After dinner Santa came for a quick visit to see Ave and her cousin, C....neither of them thought too highly of him, but A was ok with it, C was kind of like "ughhh....". It was cute though to see them both reacting to his arrival. After dinner we headed to church for Christmas Eve service.

Once we got home, A went to bed, and we cleaned up a bit and headed northward (how we always refer to going to bed) for the night.

Christmas Day was the usual running around...but it was so much more exciting this year with A. She was somewhat into opening presents and playing with her toys. I somehow managed to stick to the 3 gift policy we've instated: She got an LLBean sled, a toolbox, and a book...plus a few little things in her stocking (magnets for the fridge, bath stuff, and an ornament). I got an iPod for christmas and Matt got some tools.

After we were done we headed to the ILs' to do presents with them and have breakfast. The girls were so, so funny to watch. Neither of them really knew what to make of the presents and kept getting distracted every time they saw something new.

We headed back home in the hopes that A would take a nap: BAH! Didn't happen...and she was miserable! We headed up to my parents and she fell asleep in the car, so we left her in there with the car backed up to a window, so we could keep an eye on her. After we ate (again) there we opened presents.

Then it was back to the ILs for another Christmas dinner (I think we have food issues in this family) and did presents with Matt's grandparents.

It was a great day, but I think we're still recovering from all of it...I know A is...her schedule is entirely thrown out of whack! Now we can, hopefully, get back to some sort of regular schedule.