The Ferrara Family: What a wonderful Holiday!

Exhausted but very much worth it would describe this holiday season! Mike & I had a beautiful Christmas with our families and friends. We started by having Mike & Vicki Kilgus over the week before the hoidays and their boys, Michael & Patrick - so well behaved and such manners! They played super well with Michael - even after Michael's shyness in the beginning. They were trying to jump off of the sofa by the end of the night - but we nixed that right away;)
Christmas Eve was nice - we missed Camille, but having Sam, Sal & Maureen over was nice. Camille sent her love with gifts for the kids and cookies! The calamari was out of this world - and I HIGHLY recommended it to everyone! Sam got the most adorable outfits for Alexandra and Michael got a personalized craft box with tons of crayola supplies! Michael got GEOTRAX from Gramps & Maureen & they bought Alexandra a ton of outfits!
Then although Michael was awake for some of the overnight hours of Christmas Eve - both kids and us arrived downstairs to see the gifts from Santa around 7:30-8am. Mike made breakfast and we played until grandmom & grandpop came over wit even MORE presents!! Then Uncle Dan & Alison brought even MORE!!! We had a great day together....Mike & I and the kids bought an ipad for my mom - she so deserves it - and she is becoming an expert with that and her new iphone 4! FACETIME with the kids is so much fun!
The next day is always reserved for the Langellos - but it snowed and we cancelled heading to my mom's for dinner - Dan & Tim went though - they had a nice, peaceful dinner:)
Uncle Tim & Aunt Laura came during the week - and brought more gifts for the kids - and some much needed PJ's for them as well. Mike got a stylus for his ipad from them and I received such a great calendar of the kids pics.
New Years Day is the new tradition for our "Christmas" with the Ferrara's - Sal, Jean, Jake, Denise & Matt. They came over and we had a GREAT day - opening gifts and eating so much FOOD! It was relaxing and the kids love to play with everyone - their uncle, aunt & all of their cousins - Sam cant get enough of them - she even drove straight here for the day after her New Year's Eve night out!
A truly beautiful Christmas with the kids - they amaze us - and today, even after all of the exhaustion, Alexandra started taking her first steps - she is something else - Michael's potty use is becoming such a habit - he is doing great! Slowly, but we are getting there!
Enjoy some of our family pics!

Matt & Michael - New Years Day