Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Swenson family Christmas

Christmas at the Swenson house occurred over the last weekend in December. Working around several schedules, we decided to open presents later afternoon on Saturday, which slightly complicated Santa's visit--how do presents magically appear in the middle of the day? Happily, when you're almost 4 and still take a nap, it's totally plausible that you might wake up from your nap and "catch" Santa leaving presents behind. 

The above photo is not Thomas being scared. It's Thomas feeling so excited that he's squeezing me. He can't believe Santa is here, in Grammy and Buppa's house!

Jojo, on the other hand, is not so sure about this guy. 

James is pretty ambivalent, even when presented with a fire truck.

Once again, I get to be in the photo with Santa. It's too bad Buppa was at the store during Santa's visit.

By now, Jojo is an old pro at stockings!

As of course is TJ.

TJ's first doll: Aaron Rodgers! Aaron took a lot of abuse (from me and Ed) during the Packers' playoff loss. Eventually, he just had to turn away from the tv because the game got so ugly.

Love this photo with the tree in the background!

Because we're gluttons for punishment, we tried one more cute pj photo. No luck. 

The best photo I have of the two boys in their "Christmas best."

Three cousins in Santa hats.

So sweet.

Our Christmas tradition is to do Maggiano's family-style some time over the holidays (never on actual Christmas!). The idea of taking three kids under 4 to a multi-course dinner sounded like a BAD idea. So we recreated our Maggiano's favorites at home. Brilliant!
And much like our traditional all-you-can-eat meal, we had way too much food.

Ridiculously sized garlic bread. Yum.

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