We had an unusual Christmas vacation. This year we celebrated Christmas three different times. We first had Christmas at our house here in Provo. We were able to have a Christmas dinner and then open up Christmas presents with Uncle Stu and Aunt Ashley. James was able to open up his presents from the Mauger side of the family and from us.
Its so fun to see James open up his presents at this age- he really enjoys taking the wrapping paper off and finding out what is inside. This was his favorite toy from Grandma and Grandpa Mauger.
Daddy got James these big legos (or duplos) and I think Daddy likes them more than James at this point
After opening each present, James kept going back to his farm. He loves this toy and still plays with it all the time! Christmas with Stu and Ashley was very fun and we REALLY loved all of the presents that we received (I definitely got the best present! :) )
When we got to Texas, my dad had just been admitted to the hospital and stayed in the hospital for the entire break. (More about that in a later post) Because of this, we had to adapt our Christmas a lot. My dad was in ICU on Christmas day so we couldn’t bring any presents to the hospital that day (no kids are allowed in ICU and only 2 visitors at a time). On Christmas day we opened our stockings and had a Christmas meal with my brother Bill and his in laws. It was a delicious meal and it was nice for James to spend time with his cousins, even though it was hard to be away from my dad and mom for most of that day.
A week after Christmas was when we actually opened our presents with my dad at the hospital. He was moved to a different part of the hospital so we brought the gifts to his room and opened them up.
Here is James’ Aunt Andrea and his two cousins whom he LOVES a lot!
To be funny, I got Bill some dollar sunglasses that were the shade of blue. For any of you that may know my brother, you know that he is hilarious, so I knew that he comments towards this gift would be memorable. He cracked all of us up as he made his sly remarks about these sunglasses.
Overall, even though this Christmas wasn’t typical and what we had planned, we enjoyed being around family!
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