Almost Christmas

It's my Friday. I'm off for the rest of the week for the holidays. Tomorrow is going to be a lot of fun. We are having a Christmas Eve pizza party for our nieces and nephews to give them their presents. They both have so much family to visit on Christmas, we decided we'd start a tradition for Christmas eve. That way, too, they get to enjoy what we have gotten for them for a little while before it's tossed aside for everything else they get.

It was fun this year shopping for the kids, though we went way over our budget. That's so easy to do, though, with kids. Especially David. He's into reading and there are so many books that I want to get for him. The girls are super easy to buy for too. Girls are always easier to buy for. Ryan was a little harder, but I found a great little digital camera by Crayola that he will get a kick out of. Giving it to him on Christmas eve is great too because he can use it at all the different places they visit on Christmas day. Maile is getting a dress-up chest with princess outfits and Payton a boombox with Hello Kitty on it. Both are getting Barbies, of course, and porcelain dolls. We started that tradition last Christmas. We want to give the girls and the boys something that they will, hopefully, keep for a long time. Dolls for the girls and coins for the boys. They seem to like it, though David is the only one old enough to really know what it means.

I've had such a hard time not giving presents out. I am not the type to be able to sit on things like that. We finished our shopping shortly after Thanksgiving, so I'd say I've done a fantastic job of keeping presents under the tree. I can't wait for everyone to open their gifts.