Christmas 2012

One advantage of having a child during the holiday season is that your family comes to YOU.  This is the first Christmas EVER that Michael and I spent it in our own home since we have been together.  And it was amazing!

My parents came the weekend before Christmas.  We They spent lots of time food shopping, cooking and completing household projects around the house.  They were VERY helpful.

On Christmas Eve, Auntie and Uncle Scott arrived.  Mikey found a new BFF---Scott---and he kept him busy playing all day (whether Scott liked it or not!).  That night Mikey opened his gifts from Auntie and Uncle Scott.

Mikey saw the gifts from Santa that morning (we were able to keep him in our bed with us until everyone was ready to go downstairs).  The train table and trains were on display first.  That was the ONLY thing he cared about/wanted to play with.  After everyone came back from church, we ate breakfast and started Round 2 of opening presents (now Mikey was ready to dive in!).  We had a nice dinner together and Mikey crashed early from all the excitement.  We topped off the night playing a fun game of Apples to Apples.  It was a great time.

The next day Grandpa Bob left to go to work and Mandy and Scott headed back to New Jersey as well.  Grandma Anita stayed for a few more days.

The weekend before New Years the Scialabba family came to celebrate Christmas Part 2!  Pam and Fred arrived on Friday night and Mark, Meredith and Timmy arrived on Saturday.  We spent the day together opening presents and eating!  (It was also Pam and Fred's 39th wedding anniversary that day as well!)  Mark and Timmy got Michael a turkey fryer for Christmas which is what we used to make our dinner that day!  I prepared all of the sides ahead of time and the guys did the turkey.  It turned out to be snowing that night so cooking it got a little tricky.  In the end, everything was delicious and we had a good time together.  Due to the significant snowfall (we got 8"!) everyone left the following morning to head back to NY.

Thank you everyone for traveling to Massachusetts so we could spend the holidays together!  It was a Christmas we will never forget!

Christmas Eve 

Christmas morning:

                                                

 Nicholas wearing a hat from Great Grandma Rinder & Honorable Ernie