Deck the Halls!!

Today I accomplished quite a bit! Hannah was in school today and Jake was home with Mommy. We had a late start but, I soon came up with the great idea of wrapping presents. I started about 10 a.m. and finished about 11:15. I had already finished all of our Christmas shopping last Friday and now I thought it was time to conquer the world of wrapping. I did pretty good and got all of Hannah's gifts wrapped except for the kitchen, of course. That will be assemble by her Uncle Robert in his free time over at Dad and Mom's. I don't even think we're going to wrap it. We can't wait to see her face Christmas morning. Anyway, back to wrapping...I started on Jake's gifts since he was busy watching CARS! He didn't really notice me grabbing his gifts that were nicely hidden on the top bunk bed (It has to be used for something...storage works well for now). I had one more gift of his to wrap and I went in and grabbed it and all of the sudden I heard this loud gasp! I thought, "on no, he's in here!". I turned around and his mouth was wide open and he had the look of amazement on his face. I had in my hands....his firetruck! I ran into the kitchen and tried to cover it up with paper as fast as possible(while he is trailing fast behind me). I got it covered up and thought...he has short term memory loss right now, he won't remember as long as I distract him with something else. As I was trying to cover the firetruck up with paper, I ran out of paper and the roll was left behind. I handed him the roll and he thought this was the best thing ever!! He started running around the house, in typical Jake fashion, whacking whatever he could with it! Problem solved!!!

After most of the gifts were wrapped we headed out for some more shopping! For the past 2 years I have bought the kids their very own ornament for them to put on the tree. A little late this year but, I got it done. I got Jake a choo-choo train and Hannah a frosty the snowman! I also found some great silver and red jingle bells! Our tree has never been very creative, just the plain-jane balls you get at Wal-Mart! But since the kids have come along, they really get into putting their very own ornaments on the tree. It will be fun in 20 years to look back at each and every ornament that we have collected over the years. It may looked a little funny right now with not so many ornaments over here but plenty in just one spot. That's the way we like it...because those little critters did it themselves. Our little elves!