Our Christmas

Here is some footage from Christmas Day. The kids really enjoyed the day. Thanks to everyone who sent cards and gifts.

Scenes from Christmas Day

Robert being a little silly with a Santa hat a couple of days before Christmas day. We put other pictures on our Flickr page, which you can get to here.

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Merry Christmas

We are wrapping up a wonderful Christmas. It has been a long day, particularly for Donna and Bob, who were up past 3:00 am (2:46 for Bob and 3:30 for Donna) this morning preparing gifts for the kids. We are both exhausted, but in a good way. There is something peculiarly satisfying about staying up late to put out gifts for your kids. This is the first year that Samantha and Robert understand the holiday.

The house has been decorated for a couple of weeks now. It's the earliest we've ever decorated; usually, we wait until the very last minute. This year we bought lights for the outside of the house and hung them the first weekend of December.

That same week, we took the kids to see Santa at Macy's New York City. It was a miserable, rainy day but we made the best of it. Macy's does a spectacular job keeping the line moving. It took us longer to get to Santa using the elevators than it did to wait on line for the pictures!

You may notice that Sam is wearing boots in the video. That's because she lost a shoe between the platform and train at Penn Station. Luckily Donna packed a spare set of shoes.

Enjoy the film. We'll have some footage from today up soon. Please excuse the grainy footage with Santa. It was nearly pitch black in the room with Santa, and the camera struggled to find the correct exposure.

To our friends and family everywhere, we wish you a very Merry Christmas.

Cheers