Christmas Recap

The Calvert house will be back to our regular routine on Monday. I can't believe our two weeks of Christmas break is already over! It always passes way too fast. I went up to school today and worked for almost 4 hours trying to get sub plans ready for my maternity leave...that is a big job! Poor Bryan will probably need a break to recover from Christmas break since he has been taking care of his chores and my chores too. I woke up this morning and he had already taken down both Christmas trees. I am so exhausted and uncomfortable all the time so he has definitely won some points with all his help over the past few weeks. Jordan and Nathan are kicking like crazy right now! My tummy is jumping around! I feel like such a freak of nature sometimes! But, I just remind myself of what a glorious sign of life it is to feel them move around. I am so thankful for these precious babies inside me.

Christmas began when Santa Claus came to Vivi's house a couple days early. My sister's husband, Jason, had to work on Christmas day! Bummer! This is a picture of Vivi dressed in her new Sleeping Beauty dress watching her new movie, The Little Mermaid and holding her mini Cinderella doll. Is she not a princess or what?!

Then, we had Christmas at my parents' house on Christmas Eve night! Mom always bakes the best cornished hens (little chickens) and this year she made ambrosia...yum! I wanted so bad to eat my whole cup of ambrosia but I knew the oranges wouldn't settle well with my pregnant belly. Jennifer gave me a very special gift that night. She handmade the most adorable Christmas stockings for Jordan and Nathan! I can't wait to hang them over our fireplace next year. I need to take picture of them so ya'll can see how cute they are! This picture is Mom showing Vivi her new "Gallop" book, which is really cool. I had never seen it before but as you turn the pages, the animals actually run on the page.

And, Vivi handpainted some very funny little frogs for her Uncle Bryan. Bryan actually gave these to Jenn on her birthday for a joke because Jenn always has an art project in the works.

The next day, we enjoyed a delicious breakfast and celebrated Christmas at Bryan's parents' house!

The Calvert Kids - Bryan, Becca, Morgan, Libby, Emily, Justin, Brayden, Bryce, and of course, the yorkies...Bentley and Bear

And, this is what Uncle Bryan picked out for Brayden and Bryce's Christmas gift this year! I have apologized to Emily like 20 times. There are like 350 little plastic balls to this ball pit!

We had a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of Christ, family, and friends! Next year we will have added two more boys to this extended family of ours. How fun is that?!

Love,

Becca