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Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:24 AM CST

We survived Christmas, the anticipation of it arriving was at an all time high for the few days leading up to it!!!

We had a several wonderful days before, spending them with the family which is really what this time is about- course the kids still want the presents!!!

We spent Sunday at Dad and Leannes with the Tortorici family. Which is the home photo here with all the Grandkids. Looks like 1st generation was girls and 2nd is boys!!!! We played the Yankee Christmas - where everyone brought a gift and we got to steal the presents from one another - that was a lot of laughs!!! The boys loved playing with Robert, they were all buddies in no time!

Christmas-eve was spent at Aunt Shelly's and Uncle Petes with Grandma Bonnie, Hank, Aunt Susie and of course PJ and Lexi! I told Lexi (2) how me and her would be shopping buddies because we both loved shoes!!! She had to show me her shoes many times!!! Shelly made a good-ol Polish feast which my husband loves!!!!! By the time we rolled out of there - we had some tired but excited boys on the ride home. Amazingly they all got ready for bed with the sparkle in their eye that Santa was soon coming.

Owen had the restless night. He woke several times, which means I woke several times so he could tell me how he couldn't sleep! At 6am he woke me to tell me he could hear Santa's sleigh bells and I had to come listen in the hall. I think all I heard was the fuzzy sleep in my head! Finally at 7 I gave up and Owen and I got up so he could browse the tree. Our tree looked quite pathetic this year, with all the 'little' gifts it was not over-flowing into the living room like normal, our boys are getting big :-( and the gifts are smaller.

At 8am I let Owen go up and wake up Tyler and Jake, who descended the stairs rubbing their eyes, but it took no time to wake up and get into full swing of the morning. There were many squeals of delight so I think Santa and Mom and Dad did a good job with the gifts!

The rest of the day was filled with Grandma Pat, Papa Fred, Grandma Lea, Papa W and Grandma Lee slowly fill up the house. We had a great afternoon filled with family and ended with dinner and everyone ready to relax and work off the excitement of the day.

We have spent the next few days opening all the new things, shopping with gift cards and just enjoying being home and together. Yesterday the boys and I went to see Bedtime Stories - which was really cute. Today will be a lazy day with some more time spent just enjoying the boys and then tomorrow is back to reality and work :-(

New Years is fast approaching and we hope to have a wonderful 2009. Owen will reach 1 year off treatment, Tyler will be 10 (OMG) and Jake will ... well probably be Jake - not sure what he will bring yet :-)

Wishing you all a great end to 2008 and Happy 2009!!!!!
Thankyou all for your continual support and well wishes for our family, we will never be able to tell you how much it has meant all these years - and it has been many - 5 years!!! Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou!!!

Love to you all - The Wawrzaszek Family!

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