Christmas 2012!

I can’t believe how much time has passed, and with my life going the way it is, I have been unable to keep up with my posts. So it is July but I am finally getting around to write about Christmas. It was my first Christmas without my mom, and it was very hard to get through. I feel like we just kind of went through the motions and didn’t truly enjoy the season, although we did try. I had my husband and dad and then of course my babies. Unfortunately at the time I had no idea it would be Pepper’s last Christmas and Dutch’s first and only Christmas. (More on this in other posts to come…..)

My dad, Darrell, Grandpa, Aunt Judy and Uncle Ken and I went to have Christmas brunch with my Great Aunt Ann. We had done this last year with my mom and had a good time and the food was good so figured we might as well do it again.

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I found this ornament that I thought was really cute, because it’s for Twitter but we also used to have a bird named Tweets, too bad he was yellow and not blue….2012-11-17 14.15.13

We decorated mommy’s grave:2012-11-23 12.13.06

My dad decorated his house in honor of mom: 2012-12-07 07.59.232012-11-29 20.18.50

Dad and I went to the Bensenville tree lighting. Darrell, dad and I went to Bass Pro Shop, the Bolingbrook Promenade and to the Phillips Park Christmas lights: 2012-12-20 18.09.452012-12-22 17.12.282012-12-22 17.19.362012-12-24 18.36.14

Just showing off some of my Christmas presents! 2012-12-23 09.57.422012-12-23 09.58.112012-12-31 13.56.542012-12-25 11.32.59

Dad got to hold Mary on Christmas day in a box. That was her present to him since normally she just swats at him, hisses and bites! 2012-12-25 17.37.41

I thought I did a pretty good job with Darrell’s Christmas present! 2012-12-25 20.03.22

This gift my dad gave me was really something my mom had bought me and wasn’t here to give me. I love my bucket of snowballs, thanks mom! 2013-01-01 16.53.47

This was Dutch’s first Christmas! That was about the only exciting thing about Christmas this year! We went all out with his gifts, and I think he really enjoyed getting them, even though he didn’t know it was Christmas! I hope we were able to make his only Christmas special…. 2012-12-25 19.58.01

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