* Saturday, Dec. 21 was the Jordan-Kimsey shindig. There we do a Scrooge exchange with favorite DVDs. Dondi and I got Shrek the Third and The Holiday. (I bet you can guess who got which). Uncle Jim also got a copy of Shrek the Third, and you could tell he was very excited to receive it. :)
Jordan made out like a bandit, as well, receiving a set of blocks, a keyboard and all kinds of things that make more noise. Thanks for all of that, by the way.
Special appearances were made by Michelle's new (and we do mean new) baby boy Ayden and by Kelly and Jay's new pug Annabelle. Jordan was terrified at first of Annabelle (who at five weeks old is smaller than Jordan's shoes), but eventually was OK with petting her. Jordan also was pretty impressed with Ayden.
* Saturday, Dec. 22 was Christmas with the Jordans. We arrived and ate a huge breakfast with the whole gang. Then, it was time for presents. Jordan got a Little Tykes drum set, a toy kitchen set (he loves to cook) and some musical bath toys. We got to pick out a new TV. So, Saturday evening, we went to our local Costco and bought it. It only took an hour of looking to decide on what we wanted and "needed." :)
* Monday, Dec. 24 was Christmas with the Hayhursts. We met up with Pa-pa, Gma and Aunt Cris for our church's 5 p.m. Christmas Eve Carols and Lord's Supper service. Jordan got to go to big church, and loved the singing. His eyes were fixed on the screens at the front of the worship center looking at the pretty backgrounds and the words to the music. We sang Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer during the first part of the service, followed by some baptisms and then some more traditional church Christmas music. Jordan wasn't sure what to make of all the people being dunked, but he liked clapping when each one was baptized.
The service lasted right at 60 minutes, which was good, because Jordan's attention span wouldn't have made it much longer. As the juice cups were being passed during the Lord's Supper, Jordan got a little perturbed that he couldn't have a drink, too.
We headed to Gma and Pa-pa's house for some sandwiches then opened some Christmas gifts.
Jordan really got into it. He received some Thomas the Tank Engine books, a Blue's Room DVD, some Tonka cars and a Radio-Flyer tricycle, among some others. Jordan had a lot of fun with opening all of his gifts.
* Christmas morning started about 7:30 with Gma, Pa-pa, Gee, Jo-Jo and Aunt Cris stopping by to see what Santa had brought Jordan. Santa ate the sugar cookies and drank the skim milk we left out for him. He also left him a train set, a bunch of books, three DVDs and Aunt Cris brought a floor puzzel of Thomas the Tank Engine. Jordan didn't know what to play with first!
All and all, Jordan had a very fun (yet busy) Christmas season! Tomorrow is back to school for Jordan and to work for Dondi and me (luckily, just two days til our weekends start on Friday!).
We hope everyone has had a very Merry Christmas and has a safe and Happy New Year.
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