I Do Not Own CSI
"Merry Christmas, Sara," James said from the doorway, holding loads of gifts, Jeremy at his side.
"Merry Christmas, you two. Come on in, the rest of the gang should be here anytime now."
"It smells good in here, Sara," Jeremy said as he took his and James' jacket and hung them up.
"Thank Marie, she showed up early this morning and put in the turkey."
"I've been looking forward to more turkey since Thanksgiving," James said as the doorbell went off.
"Hey Catherine, Lindsay," Sara said with a smile.
"No babies yet?"
"Afraid not, come on in."
"Where's Bruno," Lindsay asked.
"Gil's giving him some Christmas treats in the other room. Why don't you go help him?"
"'Kay"
"Merry Christmas, Catherine."
"You, too," she said as the doorbell went off again revealing Jim, Nick, Warrick and Greg.
"Merry Christmas!" The guys all said together, each holding a box of gifts.
"Right back at you! Come on in, make yourselves at home. As soon as you're comfortable we can open presents."
"Presents, come on guys hurry up," Greg said with a spark in his eye.
"Are you reverting back to a five year old, Greg," Warrick said as they made their way into the living room.
"At Christmas time, yes! Come on, who doesn't like presents?"
"Just wait until you have two five year olds, Sara," Catherine said as Gil, Lindsay and Marie came into the room followed by James and Jeremy.
"They're not even here yet. Let's get through the birth first," Sara said as she slowly sat down in the giant loveseat.
"Getting nervous, Gil," Jim asked.
"I won't lie, yes, I am nervous but I think that's to be expected."
"I remember your father when I was in labour with you, Gil."
"At that time fathers weren't allowed in the room. I was told from your grandmother that he didn't stop pacing the halls until the sound of your cries broke through. I remember when he held you for the first time. His hands were shaking, up until that point he had only held a baby once in his life. But as soon as you were in his arms you could see the bond that formed between father and son and suddenly all that nervousness went away, for the most part at least," Marie said through a smile, tears in her eyes as she remembered her late husband.
Hearing sniffles, everyone looked towards Sara.
"Leave me alone, I'm pregnant and that was a sweet story."
"Ok, gifts, we have to do gifts. Who's going to play Santa," Nick said, rubbing his hands together.
"I will," Lindsay said, taking the offered hat.
"Oh wait, I brought my camcorder. Hold on," James said, getting up to quickly grab the bag he left by the front door. "Ok, go ahead," he said, coming back and sitting beside Jeremy on the floor.
Ten minutes later, Lindsay had finally sorted out all the presents and everyone had quite a large pile. Even the two unborn babies had a pile.
"So, how should we do this? Go around one by one or should we all just dig in," Sara asked, already taking one of her presents and setting it in her lap.
"Dig in," Lindsay yelled.
"I'm with the kid, let's just dig in," Greg agreed.
"You heard them, start ripping," Gil said, already tearing off wrapping paper and revealing a book on Darwin and the things he discovered.
"Thanks, Warrick."
"Thought you'd like it," he replied as he opened his gift of two basketball tickets.
"Are you expecting me to take you to this," Warrick asked Nick.
"Possibly"
"Thanks, man."
"Merry Christmas," Nick said, opening his rather large box and revealing a cowboy hat.
"Put it on, cowboy," Sara said.
"Anything the lady requests," he said as both Sara and Catherine whistled their appreciation.
"Ok, ok, enough. What have you got, Sara?"
"It smells good," she said, opening her gift and revealing body lotions, sprays, moisturizing creams and things to help with stretch marks.
"I used that stuff before and after I had Lindsay and it worked miracles."
"Thanks, Cath." Sara said as Catherine revealed her gift from Marie.
"A trip to the spa. Thanks, Marie."
"Everyone deserves a trip there. We'll have to make it a girls' day. Sara's got one as well."
"You can count on that," Catherine replied. Marie smiled as she opened a beautiful necklace that had a pendant attached to it that read 'Grandma'.
"That's from the both of us," James said as Jeremy nodded.
"Thank you," she said as James and Jeremy both went to open one of their gifts. Jeremy's revealing another pair of cirque tickets and James revealed a bright shirt that read 'World's Best Uncle' on it.
"Thanks Greg, from both of us," James said, rolling his eyes with a smile.
"No problemo. Isn't that an awesome shirt," he replied just before he dug into the gift bag.
"Oh Sweet, how did you know I wanted this game, Cath."
"Lucky guess."
"Not to mention that you have laid out clues all over telling us what you wanted, Greg," Warrick joked.
"Mommy, Mommy, look what Uncle Gil and Aunt Sara got me," Lindsay squealed, holding her brand new Ken and Barbie.
"Very nice, baby. Now what do you say?"
"Thank you"
"You're very welcome, Lindsay," Sara said.
After dinner was served and dishes were done and the house was somewhat clean again, the whole gang sat in their respective spots in the living room watching as Lindsay played with some of her new toys.
"So Griss, Sara, have you two come to a final decision on the baby names," Nick asked, picking up the name book that was on the end table.
"We think so, but we're going to wait until we see the babies just to make sure the names fit," Sara said.
"Well you know, we were discussing baby names the other day at work and we came up with some suggestions."
"Oh really, let's hear them," Gil said as Greg started.
"Well, there's Cheech and Chong."
"Or Thelma and Louise," Catherine mentioned.
"Bo and Luke," Nick mentioned.
"Fred and Ginger," Jim added, looking at Marie to see if she had something to add.
"Well, there's Laverne and Shirley."
"Or Cagney and Lacey," Jeremy put in.
"Tom and Jerry for boys," James added.
"Or if you wanted to do something a little dangerous, there's Bonnie and Clyde," Warrick put in. By now the room was in hysterics.
"What about you, Lindsay, do you have any names you want to add," Catherine asked.
"How about Bert and Ernie? No, wait! Ken and Barbie," she said, making the room laugh even harder.
"As much as we enjoy and appreciate the thought you put into the names, guys," Sara started through a giggle.
"I think we like ours better," Gil finished through his own chuckle.
"Don't worry guys, not much longer now."
TBC
What Gil said, not much longer now, so hold on! lol
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Katie