Christmas

Santa visited the Braham house on Christmas Eve and filled the boys red bags with toys.  They got a lot of toys from Santa, Mommy and Daddy, Oma, Julia, Ethan and Mimi and Papa.  Here are some of the things they got:  a new keyboard piano, science kits (from Santa, Mommy & Daddy and Aunt Jo Ann and Uncle Dominic), puzzles, drones, gravitrax, rockets, clothes, pajamas, nintendo switch games, accessories, beyblades, beyblad launchers and two arenas, crystal making kits, games, soccer nets, Magformers, remote controlled dinosaurs (one breathes fire/steam), soccer balls, sport launcher for tennis and baseball and more.  Mommy got some beautiful David Yurman jewelry from Daddy and Oma, Oma got a pretty bracelet from us as well as a tea kettle, Ninja Foodi, more jewelry, spa stuff and travel stuff, Daddy got some cool jewelry from John Varvatos, Marina got boots, a new coat, pajamas, robe, special tablet she wanted, jewelry, spa stuff, travel stuff and comfy socks.  Sophie got new balls, treats, bones and toys.  She had fun playing with her new stuff.  We had a very chill day playing with our new toys and relaxing.  We made a big breakfast, ate snacks all day and ended up ordering food for dinner.  We had a great Christmas this year and feel so blessed even though the world is so crazy.  We hope next year will bring us more normalcy and lots of fun times with family with no restrictions.      

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we spent at our house with the 6 of us, Oma and our au pair Marina.  We hung out, ate a lot of food, decorated Christmas cookies (Denkel's bakery), opened presents and took a lot of pictures.  We took pictures wearing our nice clothes and then changed into our Christmas pajamas for more pictures.  We let the boys open 5 presents on Christmas Eve because Julia and Ethan were opening all of their presents.  It was fun showing Marina some of our holiday traditions.  It was such a special night having most of us together celebrating the holiday season.  We wish we could celebrate with everyone in the family, but at least the 6 of us and Oma could be together.  The boys decided to do some silly poses for our pictures.  We left out cookies and milk for Santa.  He left the boys a nice letter telling them they made the nice list.  There were definitely some moments where we didn't know if Santa was coming or not, but overall the boys made the nice list this year.  Our elf Sparkles checked on the boys each day and reported back to Santa.  Merry Christmas!