Saturday, December 22, 2012

Christmas at the Kinsellas

On Saturday afternoon, we started the first of our many Christmas celebrations.  This one was with Nana and Poppa, Paul and Ang, and Matt and Gina.  We went over to Mom and Dad's house in mid afternoon and the eating began!  Usually we do an appetizer dinner but this year we decided to try the grazing concept.  We made and cooked food and just ate a bit here or there as the afternoon and evening went on.

The Christmas tree with lots of gifts underneath

One of our fancier apps, courtesy of Ang

Cameron playing on the treadmill

Leah's turn

One of Cameron's favorite things to do - wrestle with his uncles!

Making more appetizers

Eating more appetizers

 Time to start opening gifts.  Stockings are first (and only for the little kids).

Happy elf

Excited about his glowstick sword

Leah in a very cool chair from Uncle Matt and Aunt Gina





Cam tearing into one of his gifts

Leah was very excited about the book that Poppa got

Leah and Poppa reading all about Guadalcanal

Uncle Paul and Aunt Ang got Leah a princess bathing suit.  She wanted to put it on immediately and wore it the rest of the night.

Cam doing more wrestling with his uncles

A swimsuit-clad Leah opening up one of her gifts

And working out

One of Cam's gifts from Nana and Poppa was this really cool straw kit - it came in a bunch of pieces and you can build whatever kind of cool straw contraption you can think of.  Cam came up with this one and then tried to drink up the blue and yellow colored water.

It was pretty tricky but he did it. And turned the yellow water green!

Playing with Leah's princesses

Whoever threw this gift at Cam must have known what was in there!

Cameron was very happy and excited to get a Bruins pillow pet (to go with his Red Sox and Patriots pillow pets)

Poppa working hard on a puzzle

Leah with the finished product

 Leah eating for the fifth time that night

Leah was dancing in the family room with her princesses, so Uncle Paul decided to join her.

They are such pretty princess dancers!

Family picture!

A wonderful way to start our weeks of Christmases!

No comments: