Thursday, December 31, 2020

Christmas day 2020

Christmas morning started at 3:30 am when Enslie came into our room and said she had to pee. Well the only way to get her to the bathroom to pee was to go past the room where Santa usually sets up Christmas. She said she really had to go so I  told her pull up her shirt to cover up her eyes. We started goin up the stairs and she decided she didn't have to go any more. I told her I was awake now and I didn't want her to pee the bed so I made her go. The second we got down stairs she asked if I had seen if Santa came I told her I wasn't sure because I was to worried about making sure she wasn't peaking and to go back to bed.  When she got back in bed she woke up Erilyn and they started talking and came in to see if they could go yet. It was about 4:30 at this time I said to wait at least another half an hour till 5 they woke up korbyn and came in every 5 min till 4:45 when we finally gave up.
Everything all set up ready to be seen.

The cats each got a stocking this year, I wonder if its because they stayed away from the tree?

Erilyns stash she got modeling clay, a teal lama fureal, head phones. a tie-dye kit, a polaroid camera, and a Barbie styling head.

Enslies stash she got a science kit, a unicorn fureal, a marble run, head phones, an art kit and a terrarium

Korbyns stash he got a tablet (earlier in the month) a dinosaur fureal, a flipping rc car ,a dinosaur egg, magnetic shapes, and a bike.

Cookies all gone and a good bye note from the elf.


I got this picture right before the kids came up stairs! Its so magical!

And this is the best picture I got of the kids running to see what Santa brought.


Stocking contents this year. They each got anther switch game, a chocolate figure, a box of junior mints, sour straws, nerds ropes and clusters, Bueno candy bar, crabby patties, a kinder egg, Chapstick, a marshmallow Santa fun facemasks, band aids, baby bottle pops, ring pops, crayons, the girls got  face masks the kind that are wet and you put on your face to soften it. The girls also got new brushes and perfume, Korbyn got a batman doll, the girls got lol pets balls, and they all got candy necklaces and a huge thing of cotton candy.






The aftermath.




Korbyn curled up in a ball on the floor and fell asleep for about 3 hours!

Trying out facemasks.


About noon I popped this baby in the oven.





Once the ham was done cooking we wrapped it up and loaded up in the car to go to Matts. Korbyn ate his blue rung pop I'm not sure if you can tell....


My yummy ham! We also had fancy mac n cheese, potatoes and veggies for Christmas dinner/ lunch. 


the kids opened thier presents from Gramma, Grandpa, uncle Matt and Nisha they all got new Minky blankets and fancy water bottles.

We hung out for a bit before leaving the kids with Gramma so the rest of the adults could go see wonder woman 84. It was good but long after we went to see Nisha and Tristens dad he gave Korbyn a dinosaur egg extracting kit, Enslie got a baby doll carrier and Erilyn got a bike seat for her baby dolls. and Travis and i got a target gift card.

The next day we cleaned the house and did a volcano science experiment before heading to my moms to get presents from her and have lunch. 


These were what the kids all got from her as a kids present, Korbyn got a balloon powered car, the girls got scribble scrubbles, Travis and both got battery chargers for our cars, and the whole family got romen and a year zoo pass!

By the 27th I was over the Christmas clutter, so we took down Christmas! Erilyn thought it was funny that the heater vent blew up her night gown.


 The day before we took down Christmas we found a new tree for half off!! Its way cool it can be color or white lights and actually has room under it for presents. After 3 toddlers and 2 kittens our old tree was pretty trashed so we put it on the curb with a free sign! It was gone the next morning. Over all we had a great christmas!

Christmas Eve 2020

We went shopping for the traditional food in the morning with Hamma and Hampa and Connor the kids insisted i take pictures with the water! 



After Sam's we headed to WinCo for a few things and let the kids pick out some caffeine (mtn dew) to help keep them awake since our family Christmas eve party wasn't even starting till half an hour after bed time.

when we got home we let the kids open presents from us we always do board games to help keep the kids occupied since they are always excited and hyper on Christmas eve. We let them open Kerplunk, Jake the snake, and Mouse trap we played those for a bit then had lunch then we told the kids we  had one more present for them! They were surprised when it was 4 more!! And even more shocked when it was a Nintendo switch! The other presents were more controllers and games. Its so tiny!!

We enjoyed the rest of the day and playing all the games around 7 the kids started to get tired so we whipped out the mtn. dew. 

So the back story behind getting this switch! Travis and i had a deal that if i could find it for under $300 we could get one well Sams club had one a week before thanksgiving for $299! I was so excited but failed to notice it was online only and didn't get one before it sold out! I was so bummed then I saw on an add that wal mart was also going to have one on sale the day before thanksgiving! It was going on sale online at 7pm eastern so I set an alarm on my phone for 4:50 to remind me to look and then I got busy making dinner and lost track of time. At 5:02 I looked and they were sold out! When Travis got on to look it said that it would be going on sale again at 5:30! We hurried finished dinner and sat on the couch to try to get one. At 530 they sold out right away I was so sad but, it said they would go on sale again at 5:45! I kept on hitting refresh and some how got one in my cart but I lost it because I want sure what the security code on my card was and didn't check out fast enough!! At 5:45 we have no luck again. I some how get one in my cart and decide to leave it there till they go on sale again at 6pm right at 6 I checked out and got it!! It was so STRESSFUL I totally prefer dealing with crowds and fighting to get stuff in store much better!!
 
Oh the story doesn't end there! When I checked out I was so stressed I didn't care if we had to drive an hour to pick it up but, I got free shipping!! It said it would arrive the 7th of Dec. then I got an Email a few days before that saying the found an extra at a store and it would be delivered the next day!! It also said that it would more then likely come in the original box and not in a bag or anything!! What!? Its Christmas time! And its expensive! We haven't had anything stolen of our porch but people also couldn't see what things were and with amazon prime we can see right when stuff is getting delivered. The email didn't give a time! I was so stressed about it, I literally sat in the front room with the door open and watched for it the whole time the kids were doing school! About 1pm I got an email that said it was delayed but didn't say for how long!! Grrrrrrr!! After school the kids went out side to play with friends and get some fresh air about 2:30 I got a text from door dash saying that they were here! What?! I didn't order door dash, I look out side and a girl is walking up the side walk with our switch! I run out grab it and tell her thank you, before one of the kids come up front and see! I run in and hide it just in time for the kids to decided to cold to play out side! We played for about 5 hours straight on Christmas eve!

about 8pm we headed to the church to do our Hammond family Christmas party. Due to Covid it was alittle different this year we didn't all squeeze into my parent basement, instead we socially distanced at the church gym.

We did the nativity Mady was Mary.


Korbyn was a wise man.


So was Erilyn

Enslie was a shepherd

and the 2 girls who were baptized this year were the angels


After the nativity we did the secret Santa git exchange. this is what Erilyn got, Enslie got an lol and Korbyn got tiny transformers..

Once we got home about 10:30 we gave the kids some melatonin to help them calm down and fall asleep on the traditional air mattress about 11:30 they were all officially asleep.