Early Christmas and Scholarship

I found flights for $34 from Omaha to Orlando.  The deal was too good to pass up and so the boys and are flying down tomorrow.  Mario has to work next week plus Eric and Erin have to take finals. So they will drive down next weekend.  We decided to open some of the gifts last night since we won't have room in the SUV to bring them down and back.

The biggest Christmas gift came yesterday afternoon when the Peter Kiewit Institute called Eric and told him that he had been selected as a Walter Scott Scholar.  He already had full tuition for any university in Nebraska.  But the Walter Scott scholarship will pay for EVERYTHING else like books, dorm, food, and all fees.  That is huge!  Mario and I are so happy for Eric.  All of his hard work and extra curricular activities have paid off in a big way.

So no presents compare to that, but we did get a few small things opened last night.

Flying Monkey toy that was regifted from our White Elephant party

Clothes

A mini Simon game

Toolbox and tools

Happy 11th Birthday Boys

I tried to convince the boys that this day should be a celebration about me since I carried two 7 lb twins to 38 weeks. They didn't agree.

We celebrated with scones for Zach for breakfast and Honey Bunches of Oats (the blue box) for Nate. Lunch was Jimmy John's. Dinner was Aunt Annie's mac and cheese and turkey potpie with ice cream cake made by Mario.

Nate got a 3DS xl, games, and some footed pjs. Zach got games,
lighted Kindle cover, footed pjs and full ownership of the 3DS he once shared with Nate.