Peter got very spoiled by everyone! Flying back home to Tucson I didn't have any room for clothes, my bag was entirely presents and we are mailing back our clothes. Peter did get a bunch of new clothes too, including an Iowa Hawkeye outfit. He also got a number of books, some bath toys, a bunch of teething toys, a santa blanket, a stuffed Pooh-bear that he loved...and an annoyingly-fun penguin blow-up toy from Uncle Ben. Peter's absolutely favorite thing though had to be playing with the crinkly paper and putting everything in his mouth. He's easy to please!
Jen got a few things too: a shirt, a scarf, a cookbook... One of my favorites had to be a personalized ornament with a mommy, daddy, and baby snowman with our names and 2008. What was really neat was when I got back home I noticed that we had gotten a similar one last year with just John and I. Gotta love the continuity!
We flew home Xmas eve at midnight and celebrated our christmas when we all arrived home. And such a beautiful home! John had cleaned the whole place! It was so uplifting to come home to a clean house! We were too excited to sleep and baby was well-rested from sleeping the whole day of traveling so we decided to open all our presents. John got to slowly empty my luggage and see all the great things Peter had gotten. He even had a few presents himself.
Among our own family John's big present was his tattoo, which thankfully isn't as big as it looks in the picture. John got me an iPod shuffle which I have been wanting for nearly 2 years, I am now busy uploading workout music to it. And Peter got more clothes and a stand-up walker. He hasn't quite figured out how to walk with it yet but he is having fun standing up on it and playing with the toys.
We finally went to bed about 2am. Xmas day was spent catching up on alot of our sleep. We'd wake up to eat and play. We watched a movie. We finally officially woke up around 5pm and got ready to go out to eat at Golden Corral. After the long flight and arriving home to a nearly bare kitchen I was ready to let someone else cook my feast. It was great to have a lazy, relaxing day.
We had a great Christmas, both away and home. It was nice to see family, and even nicer to return to a relaxing home and be together.
We had alot of fun the next day heading out to the after Xmas sales and to restock the kitchen. We used some gift cards to get FM transmitters for our cars so we can listen to our iPods and Jen stocked up on things for next Xmas. We also took some of the cash we got to fix John's car and take our dog to the vet.
We had a wonderful Xmas and are very grateful to everyone that played a part. I hope everyone had as wonderful a Xmas as we did this year. I hope its just a sign of many more to come!
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Thanks for sharing your Christmas season with us! It was wonderful, just not long enough. Peter looks like he enjoyed his Christmas dinner out.
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