Pomerleau Family Blog: Christmas 2013

I know I am really behind on my blog when I am writing about Christmas almost two months after it happened. We had a really fun Christmas this year. We went down to Corvallis on Saturday December 20th. My sisters both arrived on Saturday and spent the day shopping with my mom in Portland. Before we hit the road to Corvallis we had some fun wine tasting at Four Graces with the kids and picking up our Winter wine shipment.

At Four Graces just before we left for Corvallis

Daddy throwing Brandon around in the barn of Four Graces

Olivia and Mommy

Olivia and Daddy

Olivia liked the wine glass

Wine tasting at Four Graces when Brandon was 7 months old 2.5 years ago

After wine tasting we came back home and packed up the car and after Brandon's afternoon nap headed down to Corvallis. It is always so fun to be able to go back to my childhood for the holidays. My parents' house is large and accommodating for so many people. It was especially nice to see my sisters who I only get to visit a few times a year. They were astonished at how big Olivia had gotten. And it was Olivia's first Christmas which made it very special as well.

Daddy and Olivia a few days before Christmas in Corvallis

Olivia playing with her new toy from Grammy

Mommy and Olivia

Olivia and Charlie (Tory's dog)

Sitting up in her Bumbo

We had a fun Sunday getting everything ready for Christmas. We put up the lights on my parents' ginormous tree and baked cookies. Unfortunately on Sunday night both my sisters and my Dad came down with terrible food poisoning we believe from American Dream Pizza and specifically the bacon that was on the pizza. They were up most of the night violently ill. The ones of us who did not eat the bacon pizza did not seem affected. That was a pretty big bummer because they were sick for Monday and most of Tuesday and just starting feel a bit better on Christmas Eve. It also meant that my mom did not have all the helpers she usually has to get Christmas ready so us healthy ones had to help out a lot.

Olivia and her CiCi

Playing under her play mat

She loves her play mat

Auntie Rachel and Olivia

Brandon and Olivia had a lot of fun though getting reacquainted with their Aunts and playing at CiCi and Baba's big house. Brandon was super excited for presents and for Santa to come. On Christmas Eve we had our traditional sandwiches and King Tin Hot and Sour soup under the Christmas tree which Brandon enjoyed. We hung up our stockings and read the Night Before Christmas. It was of course hard for Brandon to fall asleep because he was so excited for Christmas. It was really cute when he first came up the stairs he ran over to where he put the milk and cookie out for Santa the night before and noticed part of the cookie eaten and that made him really excited. Brandon's big presents this year was a Playmobil Fire Station and Ambulance form my parents, a Jake And the Neverland Bucky pirate ship from Sean's parents, a Jake Tiki House from us, a Batman Helicopter and house. He loved every one of his presents.

Daddy and Brandon by the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve

Eating underneath the Christmas tree

Olivia joining in on the fun on Christmas Eve

Brandon giving his sister a kiss

Olivia sure loves her big Brother

Christmas Eve shot

Another Christmas Eve shot

Auntie Tory and Olivia

Taking a bath on Christmas Eve

Rub and Dub Dub

Bumbos are good for baths too!

Santa jammies

Olivia on the other hand, liked her presents but was more interested in playing with the Christmas bows than opening her presents although she gave it a whirl. Big brother was luckily around to help her out. Sean gave me my Iphone 5s for Christmas (I got it early because I was able to trade in my phone and get $120 credit). I gave Sean the Apple TV which integrates all our Apple products to the TV screen and plays Netflix and other apps (very nice to have). I got a bunch of clothes and Ugg boots from my parents for Christmas. Everyone loved the calendars I made this year and the foot print cookie plates. It was a very fun Christmas, just sad that we had to work the next day and leave in the evening on Christmas day.