1st Christmas

Aria's first Christmas must be recorded, it was pretty amazing. First off, we started Christmas Eve with a poor little girl getting sick. She kept coughing and waking up crying which made for a long night. We finally all got up on Christmas morning excited for presents, well excited to play with Aria's presents. While pulling presents out from under our choose-and-cut Christmas tree, we noticed some tiny bugs. Not just some bugs, hundreds of dead bugs all over the presents. We chose to ignore the bugs and continued to have fun helping Aria open her gifts. As we pulled out her last present, a slide, Lance noticed a not-yet-dead bug on her brand new slide. Upon closer inspection the bugs seemed to resemble ticks. Yikes, time for the tree to go. That's the fastest we've ever taken a tree down and out of the house. We googled the bugs and found out that they were not ticks (thank goodness!) but a type of pine tree aphid, harmless to people and pets. Still we vacuumed and cleaned up the room pretty well. We were all a little sad to lose our tree so quickly and came up with a compromise. Lance set the tree up outside and we decorated it there to enjoy for a few more days.

So between the bugs and quick Christmas tree departure, opening presents was pretty exciting. For Christmas dinner we enjoyed a quiet family dinner with a yummy ham.

This is how Santa Claus comes to town

We had our word Christmas party today and this is how Santa Claus arrived.