Our Christmas!!

Well, our Christmas went well. Busy, noisy, messy but great. I had some fantastic help from some family memebers to help get everything ready. My aunt Marie came over to tidy up and mopped my floors and helped out so much. Her hubby uncle Robbie came and helped with the undercoat in the theatre room. My aunt Fay came over and weeded our yard and my Mum came and kept Jack occupied for hours and bathed him for us. I was so grateful for their help as Owen had woken up with a ripper of a migraine so I had to do the last of the plastering, sanding and door edges and skirting myself. Arrrrrrrrggggghhhhh!! All's well that ends well though and the room was at least undercoated. Owen is nearly wetting his pants in anticipation of getting the screen up but the top coats have to be done first. So Owen & I got to bed at about 2am.

CHRISTMAS DAY
I woke up at six and just couldn't get back to sleep but I stayed in bed until seven. Did a few last minute things, washed my hair/cleaned the shower etc. then Jack woke up at about eight. We hadn't wrapped his tricycle due to the awkwardness of it but you should have seen his bleary little eyes light up when he saw it. "Motorbike!!" He loved it so much he didn't want to open anything else. Grandma Hamo came over at about nine and then everyone else started arriving. Lunch went well but there were heaps of leftovers as per normal. Jack had a fabulous time playing with his 2nd cousin Patrick but wasn't very interested in opening his pressies. It was a very full house for a while there. Everyone was gone by about four and then Owen and I settled in for a quiet night at home. Jack hadn't had a nap all day so he fell asleep watching Wiggles within about five minutes. Poor little fella. Anyhoo, a great time was had by all. I got some great photos which I can't wait to scrap. It was so nice to see everyone it's just a shame I couldn't have spent a bit more time chatting.