Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Eve was a very, very busy day but a fun one.

I had to go to work for a few hours while Andrea got the house ready for her family to join us. I got home around Noon or so and everyone was there already. Andrea's parents and also Jessica, Tim, and Bjorn were able to join us as well. It was a fun afternoon just having lunch and opening some presents that her parents brought with them. They all hung out for a couple of hours and then we were off to the Christmas Eve service at church.

The church was packed, it seemed like everyone had the same idea we did of getting to to the 3:30 service and then we could head out and do the family stuff later. This was Bruin's first experience being left in daycare at church. He seemed to do "alright". The ladies at the door said that a lot of the babies in the nursery started to have a melt-down about 5 minutes before the service was over. So when we picked up Bruin, he wasn't necessarily the happiest baby. The poor guy's schedule had really been thrown off. But it wasn't over yet. So we took screaming baby and all to Hillsboro to hang out with my parents.

Our Christmas tradition for the last few years has been to spend Christmas Eve with my parents and hang out at their place for awhile, then we would open presents. This year was no different. We got their at about 5:30 or so and ate dinner with everyone. Bruin did alright. Of course, he was polite enough to wait until we got to my parents to have a "blow-out". Andrea was well prepared though so we handled it like pros. :) Afterward, he was a little cranky just because it was encroaching on his bedtime. He ended up falling asleep at about 9 or so and the party was dying down. We did our gift exchanges with my parents and headed home.

We got home at around 11:30 or so and put Bruin to bed not knowing what would happen overnight. He'd been sleeping for a couple of hours so we were dreading that he would sleep till like 2 and then be up and rarin' to go. Is it too early to tell him that if he's awake then Santa won't come? He did end up sleeping really well and now I'm hanging out waiting for the family to wake up so we enjoy Bruin's first Christmas, and not just Bruin's first Christmas Eve. :)