Christmas 2013

This was our first Christmas in Italy, and it was a pretty good one.

I participated in the post Christmas Revue and we got to do all kinds of things with the kids, we decorated cookies and the Christmas tree, We were even sent a special guest by Santa. This was Logan's first real Christmas considering last year he was only a month old, and between that and his birthday he made out pretty well in the gift department. All in all it was a good Christmas for us, the only thing that would have made it better would have been having the rest of our family with us to celebrate.

here are are few pictures of our holiday season...

Happy Holidays everyone!

SANTA! Oh My Gosh! SANTA'S COMING ! ! !

Yes.

I am one of those people. You know the ones... The ones that get way too excited for Christmas, way too early. Yep, that's me! 

I think that fact that i have to order Christmas gifts super early due to being overseas and all just makes it worse.

This year we will be introducing a reindeer to the kids... Kind of like the whole Elf on The Shelf thing but way cheaper. I just couldn't bring myself to spend $30 on a doll, so instead I found this cute $6 reindeer.



I plan on doing all the same things with this as you could do with the elf.

There are only 43 Days until Christmas and me and Lilly watch at least one Christmas movie a day thanks to Netflix. Here are some of our favorite holiday movies.

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• A Christmas Story
• The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
• Polar Express
• Elf
• Home Alone
• The Santa Clause
• Jingle All The Way
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Frosty The Snowman
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Christmas with the Kranks

The list could go on an on. I promise not to post about Christmas again until after Thanksgiving.

Happy Independence Day!!!

 

Happy 4th everyone. Hope you all have a wonderful and fun filled day with your friends and family.

 

Yesterday we attended the celebration being held on the base and it was very nice. They had kiddie rides and some free kids activities, some music, and food of course. We were able to take Lilly on all of the rides but sadly by time we were done with that we left, due to the massive crowd. Mr. W had worked all day before hand and was tired, so by the time we got home he was only wanting to sleep. So we ended up missing out on the fireworks.

 

I feel like it would have been a lot more fun except a majority of the crowd was actually local Italians. (keep in mind it was a U.S. Independence Day celebration) and see this wouldn't normally upset me, but many of you stateside may not know that there are some Italians that really don't like the fact that the U.S. has bases here. Just days before the celebration one of the small out posts near by was vandalized by a group of protester.

 

It just made it a the whole thing a less fun experience than what I had hoped for.