The Santinis: Christmas Part 1

I am going to split up the Christmas post. Our goal each year is to be home on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. They boys enjoy being home and getting to play with their toys. Christmas Eve we have a nice early dinner, this year it was, chicken with noodles, steak, crab, and baked potatoes. I think we had salad too. The boys get to pick what they want and that is what we get. Vince was talking about lobster a few weeks after Christmas, so I wonder if that is what he will pick next year. :) This year Ralph, Jan, and Chris came over on Christmas Eve for dinner and presents. After dinner Nick and I took the big boys to Church. It was a snowy night, very Christmas feeling. The last couple of years we have not had snow on Christmas. Once we got home we opened up presents from Jan, Ralph, and Chris and then we opened presents to each other a little later. We split it up so the kids dont lose interest in what is going on. Everyone had a nice time. Everyone was excited for Santa to bring his presents. Vince came down at about 11pm, and then the babies woke up at around 12:30. They will wake up sometimes (Tony all the time) but they go right back to sleep. They did not that night. They ended up being awake for quite a while and ate some snacks while we waited for Santa to get to our house. Luckily everyone slept in until around 7:30am. We came down the stairs and sure enough, Santa had been here. It was very exciting. After we opened presents we had a nice breakfast and played some more. That night we packed up and left the next morning for Traverse.