Although we do not have photo documentation to prove it, we had a fabulous Christmas. One of the problems of Marty's fancy pants camera is that it looks just like an ordinary nice camera but it also takes video. He shot a ton of video but hardly any photos. I didn't take any, of course, because every time I looked at him he was taking pictures... or as it turns out, shooting film. Come over sometime, I'll show you the hours of video coverage. Until then, here are our meager photos of Christmas 2011This family photo is just another one of our pre-Nutcracker shots. Below, the tree with the lights.
The tree and the new basketball hoop
Josie and Benjamin playing a new game.
Benjamin upset, I'm sure because he was too young to play the game.
And sadly, that is it for the photos. But after our own Christmas Eve celebration, we headed down to Oma and Opa's for the traditional German Christmas celebration. We feasted on German hot dogs and delicious potato salad, stuffed out faces even more with all of the chocolate and treats on our "Bunte Teller" Colorful Plate, in German and a very fun tradition where Oma fills a plate (to overflowing) with yummy chocolates and other fun treats and labels each plate with one of our names. We all get one, a hugely loaded, colorful, plate and we all eat waaaaay too much sugar. After dinner, the kids opened up all of their gifts and the rest of the night was spent playing with all of their new gifts. We all spent the night and the next day was pretty much a repeat of the day before. Eating, playing, eating and playing.
Thank you Oma and Liz for all of the delicious food!
Santa came to our house on Christmas Eve morning. The kids actually slept in until 7. I was impressed. They both woke up around the same time and were VERY excited to go and see what Santa brought. Josie was thrilled that he ate the cookies and drank the milk (We have great video of this, too) and Benjamin was very excited about his new Elmo doll. He likes Elmo the way Josie used to like Dora. In other words, A LOT!!
The tree and the new basketball hoop
Josie and Benjamin playing a new game.
Benjamin upset, I'm sure because he was too young to play the game.
And sadly, that is it for the photos. But after our own Christmas Eve celebration, we headed down to Oma and Opa's for the traditional German Christmas celebration. We feasted on German hot dogs and delicious potato salad, stuffed out faces even more with all of the chocolate and treats on our "Bunte Teller" Colorful Plate, in German and a very fun tradition where Oma fills a plate (to overflowing) with yummy chocolates and other fun treats and labels each plate with one of our names. We all get one, a hugely loaded, colorful, plate and we all eat waaaaay too much sugar. After dinner, the kids opened up all of their gifts and the rest of the night was spent playing with all of their new gifts. We all spent the night and the next day was pretty much a repeat of the day before. Eating, playing, eating and playing.
Thank you Oma and Liz for all of the delicious food!
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