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Christmas Day 2015

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Star Wars Christmas

Christmas has returned and at our house Santa was very good to us. For Andrew it was a year of Hot Wheels and Blase and the Monster Machines toys as well as some Playmobil. For Eva it was like a library came and dropped off half their collection. She received a ton of different Star Wars books and she was so excited about that. Santa brought her the original trilogy and then I got a bunch of great books from Disney Publishing about characters like Luke, Han and Leia. There is even a book with stories about Rey, Finn and Poe before The Force Awakens. She also received a book of Everything you need to know about Star Wars. She loves that book.

Christmas morning was at our house. We opened the gifts and had our breakfast on the floor. Allison made homemade cinnamon rolls for our breakfast. We started with our stockings and the kids had some wicked overflowing ones. Santa was barely able to get everything inside. The kids loved what they had inside the stockings. Lots of treats and more. My stocking had some popcorn can popcorn seasonings, prefect for me. Allison also got some tasty treats in her stocking. Continue reading Christmas Day 2015

#BenSparkGives – Our Christmas is for Kids Donation Day

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Christmas is for kids donation day

Tonight we did a few of our annual Christmas traditions. Each year we pull together a ton of toys to donate to Christmas is for Kids. I take many of the extra toys from reviews, Toy Fair and even more events and add them together along with toys that we buy from money that we’ve saved over the year. We bought those toys on Monday. So we put them together and bagged them up to bring on over to the Christmas is for Kids drop off location. This was the first year that the kids and Allison came with me. While there we got a tour of the operation which is pretty big because of how many families they help. Continue reading #BenSparkGives – Our Christmas is for Kids Donation Day