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What gift are you most excited to give?
Is everyone done with their shopping? I can't believe we're only 9 days away from Christmas!
For Liam, I'm most excited to give him the elusive Paw Patrol Skye figure with helicopter....it's the thing he wanted the most, and of course, the thing that was the hardest to find! Thanks to everyone on here who was keeping an eye out for me, my mom was able to find it at TRU!!
It's technically for Jake & Liam (their main gift from santa), but I think Jake will be most excited...they're getting one of those combo sports tables that has air hockey, basketball, ping pong, fling football, and archery. Now I just need to get Brian to put it together this weekend so that we're not up until 2am on Christmas Eve.
:-w
For Liam, I'm most excited to give him the elusive Paw Patrol Skye figure with helicopter....it's the thing he wanted the most, and of course, the thing that was the hardest to find! Thanks to everyone on here who was keeping an eye out for me, my mom was able to find it at TRU!!
It's technically for Jake & Liam (their main gift from santa), but I think Jake will be most excited...they're getting one of those combo sports tables that has air hockey, basketball, ping pong, fling football, and archery. Now I just need to get Brian to put it together this weekend so that we're not up until 2am on Christmas Eve.
:-w
Re: What gift are you most excited to give?
I am excited to give dd her first American Girl dolls. She is getting a bitty baby and the girl of the year Isabelle. Only reason she is getting both is a great deal I got on the baby! But it's really the main things she wants so I'm sure she will be excited.
I got her a big 18inch doll dollhouse on sale from target. I don't think we will end up doing it for Christmas and will wait for her bday. But I'm pretty excited about that and have a whole to wait! I think she will love it but she hasn't ever seen a doll house that size so it's not something I think she will expect.
I'm most excited for Garrett to see his Buzz Light Year, Paw Patrol toys, and some random helicopter that he spotted in Walgreens a few weeks ago, and hasn't stopped talking about since.
For Mason, it's his pogo stick, telescope, and pokemon binder/cards. Nothing too exciting, but these are the things they both keep talking about, so it will be fun to see their reaction.
Emmy - we got the boys a combo game table too! Rich put it together this past weekend to make sure it wasn't missing any parts, and it didn't take him too long. Ours also has basketball, and I think they will really be surpirsed to see it!
Rich asked for lots of boring stuff (snow pants, running shorts), so I bought him a Kindle (his recently broke) and a gift card to a brewery near our house. I think he will be surprised and really like the gifts!
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
I was making tutus for our school's handmaid holiday fair (I can't get over how talented the parents at school are, our stuff was amazing this year) and Jackson asked for a mickey mouse tutu, so I still need to make that for him. I hope he's excited for it
Our big present is surprising the kids with our Christmas trip, which I hope will be exciting for them. It'll be the first time they'll see all their cousins. The last time we saw Steve's sister's whole family was 2008. We saw his sister and niece at a 2012 wedding, but that was still two years ago.
The big thing I haven't done is taking the kids shopping to get him something, or something for anyone really. Bad mommy.
I think Heather is going to love the dollhouse, and Todd is going to love the rocket balloons. How much he loves his sled will depend on whether there is snow outside. ;-)
I always love giving professional pictures of the kids to everyone in our family. They are appreciated and I don't feel like I'm cluttering up anyone's home with more "things" they may or may not need.
I'm excited to give Logan his Planes toys and selfishly I'm excited to give him his new shoes because he really needs them.
I'm also excited to wrap formula for Ben, because Logan keeps telling Santa the only things he wants for Christmas are "toy Dusty" and food for Ben.
I have to go to the toy store in town to pick up one game that Keefer keeps talking about but other than that, I'm done. I do have some more wrapping to do.
I'm excited to give DH the sunglasses I bought him. I got him a pair of Oakley's and I think he will be very surprised. I'm excited to give Keefer the MarioKart8 racetrack...he didn't ask for that one in particular...he wanted some racetrack that you have to use your cell phone to operate...but I think he's going to love the one I got instead.
-Abbey
Hi ladies! Where is the time going? 9 days left...it sounds like everyone is doing well with their shopping, though.
I'm almost done - a couple of gift cards for my parents and a family gift for my brother's family, and that's about it. It has been a bit hectic keeping everything straight because Sean's birthday is tomorrow and then my nephew has his bday on the 27th.
Gavin's 3DS was accidentally microwaved (thanks to Sean) and so we decided to get Conall a 2DS (which can play the 3DS games) and Gavin a "beginner" tablet (Walmart had an RCA tablet on sale for around $60 two weeks ago) since he likes to play Mahjong on mine. Those are probably the gifts I'm most excited about to give them.
Then, Santa is bringing the boys two remote-controlled boats (and a floating one for Sean). Since it's too cold to swim, but we don't cover the pool down here, this will be fun for them, I think!
DH and I decided to forgo gifts for each other this year since we had an expensive year with buying the house, a trip to NY and a trip to Ireland. He's getting a new ND shirt from the boys, but that's it.
My three sons!
Also his bow and arrows. He's been walking around the house with a plastic clothes hanger for weeks, drawing it back and then saying "yeah, got a big buck" or "Ah, missed him".
Brinley REALLY wanted this Doggie Daycare playset she saw in a toy catalog. It was kind of pricey for some plastic figurines, but she's talked about it non-stop, so I expect she'll play with it all day. She also wanted Barbie's little sister Chelsea/pony set, which apparently they don't make anymore, because it's ridiculously priced on Amazon, so I ended up getting her the whole Barbie Pony Tale set, 4 horses/4 dolls. I think she's going to flip.
DH and I decided to do small/useful presents this year. I'm personally excited to give him new bed pillows, because one will end up on my side of the bed.
For Caileigh I don't think she expects another doll so that and the spa accessories. She may be more excited at the Taylor Swift calendar :P
For Eamon not sure b/c all he wanted was a spider man book, toys and big bad hook shirt (hulk). I think he'll really like the batman transformer thing - i know I'm excited to play with it!
How time flies! Caileigh (9), Keira (6) & Eamon (3)