Christmas at the Hislops

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas as did we! It was such a fun Christmas. Our children were at the perfect ages too. (We thought that anyway!) Here are some highlights of our Christmas:

• Christmas Eve with Chris's parents.
  
• Crab legs, shrimp, and New York steaks for Christmas Eve dinner--Chick's new tradition.
  
• Allie portraying Mary, Chris--Joseph, Maggie--the angel, Cooper--the shepherd with Spike the rottweiler as his sheep, and Sallie--the pimped up Wiseman.


• Christmas morning starting at 2:05 a.m. with Maggie waking up every 1/2 hour and Sallie persuading her to go back to bed. We finally gave in at 7:00.
  
• All of them exclaiming, "Santa came!!"


• Each of them getting, "Just what I wanted!!"


• Playing games together.


• Designing their Webkinz bedrooms.


• Trying to get Maggie's imitation Ipod to work correctly--note to self, a $12 mp3 player from Hong Kong is just that--an imitation ipod that you got from Hong Kong worth $12--and that included the shipping. I am still working on it.


• Cooper loves his tool workshop--he got every tool imaginable!


• Allie loves her Ariel tea cart. Starburst tea is awesome according to Chris.


• Chris got lots of sports clothing--including boots and gloves to shovel snow off the driveway--hint, hint!
  
• Sallie received an airplane ticket to go to Florida in February to see her nephew, Austin's, wedding. Thanks Chris!!


• Having Chris's mom and dad come over for a while Christmas morning. And then later Jill, Kurt, and AJ came.


• Going to my mom and dad's for Christmas dinner and hanging out with all of the cousins on the Davidson side.


• Cooper got to spend the night there with the Collier boy cousins. He thought he was in heaven!


• Having my little family is wonderful! I enjoy being a wife and mother. I love Christmas!