The Contini Clan: A very merry Contini Christmas!!

Pete and I dressed up for a party at our Crossfit gym

The Christmas Season just flew by! Our October and November were completely crazy with work (our office implemented an electronic health record) and other things so I vowed to make things simple this year. I felt like I did a pretty good job sticking with that, while at the same time still enjoying a lot of the traditions we have as a family.

We got to watch Chris in his class Winter recital.

I wasn't planning on the gingerbread house this year, figuring the kids were getting old and probably didn't want to anyway. Much to my surprise they asked and all had a blast decorating it.

Every year we hit the Fantasy of Lights in Vasona. Took us forever to come up with a night when we all 6 of us were available. We finally had a night, and were getting ready to go when Zach got a better offer--a movie with some friends. I was bummed he wasn't with us, but also understand he would rather be with friends.

Because it was so close to Christmas, and a Saturday, we had to wait much longer than usual- 1 hr 10 minutes!!

It was fun and we were glad we stuck it out.

This year we hosted the annual "Little Cousins" gift exchange (yes, there are so many cousins in Pete's family that we have to divide them up--Zach on up comprise the "older cousin" set). We played the white elephant gift game, and everyone was pretty happy with their gifts.

Christmas Eve we had a great dinner and evening at my sister in law's house (and I forgot my camera-Boo to that).

Christmas 2014

Every year the kids get matching Xmas jammies (which I usually give to them on Thanksgiving), and I take a photo on the fireplace. This year I sort of forgot about the pajamas until the last minute. I ran to the mall on December 23rd to find some. Nope. No pajamas to be found--Old Navy did not have a single pair of men's or boy's pj's.