December 26th

So much Christmas fun! Yesterday after all of our Christmas fun at home, we packed up and went to Grammy and Poppa's house for Christmas over there. But before we talk about that, here are the sweet ornaments my babies made for us at school.

Charlie's ornament

Lucy's ornament

The boys both made one of these gingerbread ornaments in art class at school.

Alex's ornament

 We had a wonderful meal at Grammy and Poppa's house. Poppa fixed the meat and we had lots of delicious sides and desserts. The boys were so excited though to open presents, they could hardly stand it!

In fact, they got their Spiderman toys off one of their presents because they just couldn't wait any longer!

Lucy and Uncle Day Day

Finally it was time to open presents . ..  you can see just how excited we are!!

The kids got snow boots for Christmas . . . . a great gift, except it was 70 some degrees on Christmas Day! That didn't stop the boys from wearing their boots around though!

Alex got a Fisher Price airport and was so excited to play with it. Uncle Lattie went back to his room to put it together. The boys came back to "Help" but we quickly sent them off to play with their other toys so he could actually work.

Grammy made Pappy Cakes in the shape of Christmas trees for the boys. They loved them, as you can see!

Once their airport was finally together, the boys sat down and played. . . . for hours!!

You can see here just how much fun they had!!

Today we went to Great Daddy's house. The kids brought a few of their toys from home to play with and had a good time showing Uncle Phillip how everything worked.

Emerson and Lucy had a big time playing out in Great Daddy's garage.

These two little girls can get quite loud together . . . but they sure are having a good time!!

It was all a little much for Alex!

Me and my birthday buddy, Sloan! She is such a sweet little baby, even though she was fighting a cold!

Before everyone had to leave, we got our traditional photo together. It was nice to have everyone all together!

Even though they swore they weren't tired, this was what it looked like in our car on the way home!!

It has been such a wonderful Christmas. The kids have played well together, had so much fun, and it's just been such a joy to have this sweet time together with family. I am so grateful for this time, these memories made. For every laugh, smile, hug, kiss, every "Merry Christmas!", the snuggles . ..  even the mess that is my house right now after playing together. It is never far from my mind that life is fragile and that things can change in the blink of an eye. So I am so thankful for times like these where we can be together, making memories together to last a lifetime.