Christmas 2012

I know I say it every year, but wow – can you believe it’s already come and gone?  It started with an awesome visit from Santa (you can see Sean’s note he asked me to write below) followed by a drive to Richmond for a Ward Family Christmas Party and then on to Annapolis for a few days with the McDaris/Wiberg clans.  The boys got some awesome gifts including a big boy bike with training wheels for Sean, scooters, helicopters, bath music toys, pirate ships, construction sites… !  Polly came with us and only pooped inside once (that I’ll admit we know of) so I consider that a success.  We had our first annual Swedish Christmas Eve dinner which was really fun – herring, Swedish meatballs, potatoes, lingonberries and of course Glogg.  Thank you to the Wibergs for introducing us to your traditions :)  We went up to PA for the day to see Granny and Grandpa and got to see their new house which is beautiful.  We made a few trips down to Annapolis – John got his oyster shooters – and even walked home one night!  Doctor Noelle came by for dinner one night and then it was finally time to pack up the car and head home.  Thank goodness for DVD players in the car ;) John and I can now recite Finding Nemo and Madagascar 2 better than we’d like to admit.