Hi friends! Anyone else out there just now emerging from a cloud of sugar, pajamas, stockings, carbs and holiday fun? Ryan, Chase, Sadie and I are actually still in Jacksonville with plans to return to North Carolina later this week and I cannot say how nice it has been to have some uninterrupted time with family.
The week wasn’t exactly a smooth and seamless one – I was still recovering from the flu, my mom and brother-in-law were sick and Chase had croup at the beginning of the week – but thankfully everyone seemed mostly healthy by Christmas morning. Is it just me or did it seem like everybody was sick over the past two weeks!? Phew. I really hope you are all feeling healthy and had a wonderful time celebrating the holiday season with your loved ones!
Christmas Eve
Our Christmas Eve was relatively low key and began with an early morning church service followed by plenty of time on the beach in the afternoon.
After showering and relaxing at my parents’ place for a bit, we leashed Sadie and Kona up for a big family walk before dinner and made our way to the annual Deck the Chairs event.
Every year forty lifeguard chairs are sponsored by local business and decorated by regional artists and they’re always incredibly impressive! A decent crowd wandered around the event and we enjoyed checking out the festivities before walking back home and digging into a big turkey dinner with all of the fixings.
Of course Christmas Eve wouldn’t be complete in our house without exchanging Christmas pajamas and we all opened our new pajamas and watched Christmas Vacation together before bed.
Christmas
Christmas morning began bright and early! Chase was on a steroid for a few days to treat croup and it made him completely crazy (ridiculously high energy and zero desire to take a nap or go to sleep at night), so we’ve had our hands full with an overly excited and overly-tired-but-won’t-give-into-sleep toddler. Though there have been a few days where he has been a bit of a challenge, thankfully he seemed more like himself on Christmas Day.
This felt like the first Christmas where Chase understood what was happening and even though he averaged opening about one present every two hours, he loved playing with his gifts from our family and Santa.
He was beyond thrilled to find the giant stuffed giraffe he fell in love with at the grocery store under the Christmas tree (we had to go back and get it after so many of you swore it would be a hit) and he also could not have loved the PlasmaCar he received from my parents any more.
We spent a large part of our Christmas in our pajamas, eating monkey bread and cheesepuff casserole and sipping on hot apple cider and it felt so good to just relax and hang out with my favorite people. Ryan and I also managed to sneak away for a long walk with Sadie in the late afternoon and it felt like such a treat to be alone with our favorite furry lady!
Dinner was a fantastic feast of prime rib, twice-baked potatoes and green beans followed by pie, ice cream and whipped cream chocolate cookie stacks and I was shocked when I woke up with even the slightest appetite this morning. Ooph!
We rounded out our Christmas celebration with sparklers on my parents’ balcony before bed and everyone crashed hard by 10 p.m.
It was a very Merry Christmas!
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