Christmas in Dublin

This was the first year we spent Christmas at home. Brett put up the lights on the house this year with the rest of the neighbors and the entire culdersac was lit up. We were definitely the most modest in terms of lighting decor, but I'm sure Brett is more inspired to kick it up a notch next year.

We bought our first 9 foot noble fir to decorate. That was fun. I had been saving all these ornaments for so many years and it was nice to put them up. Sangita came over and joined in the fun with hot chocolate.

I made a christmas cd for all the kids this year and for Sydney. She started singing Jingle Bells right away and loved Santa Claus is coming to town. So much fun singing Rudolph the Red nose reindeer again. I missed singing all that stuff.

On Christmas, both parents came over for a Panetone French Toast breakfast that was soooo good. I think that's going to be our new breakfast tradition. Sydney got a tea set, books, puzzles, a purple dinosaur (not Barney), a bowling set, and a doll. The doll was to prepare her for her new little brother, but that got tossed into the tent immediately. Her favorite by far was the tea set.

We kept the tree up for another couple of weeks because it was still alive and it was continuing to look nice in the house. Great christmas, next year, we'll be a family of four.