We had a very busy three days of celebrating Christmas with family but it was oh so fun and very Merry.
We kicked off our Christmas celebrations by spending 2 days at Omah and Papa's house with Uncle Shawn, Aunt Anna, Noah, Giovanni, G.G., Aunt Anna and Uncle Andrew. Joshua couldn't have been more excited to see his cousins.
A look into the future...Anna and Andrew announced they
are expecting in Aug! This will be them next
Christmas except their baby will be about 1 month older.
As Kayla was reading this book by herself I took a picture of her. After I snapped the picture she said, "more." When I asked her if she wanted me to take her picture again she said yes and then went back to reading as if she was posing. What a ham!
My favorite part was watching all the cousins open their stockings.
Christmas gets more and more fun each year as all the kids get older. It was fun to see youngest cousins really enjoying opening gifts because they saw their older siblings doing it and they knew it was something fun. At one point it had been a while since Kayla got a present to open and all the big kids were opening theirs and she walked up to me and said, "my turn."
Showing off his new golf clubs.
On Christmas morning we did breakfast and presents at our house with just us 5, well 4 really since Levi was napping for most of it.
My favorite things as a kid and even a teenager was seeing an unwrapped gift
on Christmas morning. So I am passing on the tradition with my kids.
I was too busy taking video of their reaction when they saw their presents that I don't have any good pictures so you will just have to trust me that their faces were priceless! Right when Kayla turned the corner into the living room her face lit up, she dropped her blanket and bear and ran right over. Joshua's just sort of giggled and pointed to the gifts. Once he discovered the rocking horse he pointed it out to Kayla.
We had to find Baby Jesus first because we can't have Christmas without Jesus.
Kayla LOVES this horse. She will walk up to it and
give it hugs and kisses.
She refused to get off her horse and open presents for a while.
This year we started a new Christmas breakfast tradition of putting sprinkles in our oatmeal. The kids loved it and thought it was so neat how the sprinkles melted and made a swirl of different colors. The kids liked it so much that I think we might make it a holiday breakfast tradition.
The gift he is opening in the picture is something I picked up f
rom a garage sale early in the summer. We played with it once
but he wasn't the interested so I put it up to give it to him for Christmas.
When he opened it he said, "I remember this!" Of course
he does, his memory is amazing!
Kayla loves all of her baby stuff and it is so much
fun watching her act like a little Mommy.
After Levi's morning nap we headed over to my Mom's house where we had a big brunch and played games.
Nothing says Merry Christmas like eating corndogs for dinner :) Redneck? Maybe.
All her presents and she chose to play with dish gloves :)
Merry Christmas from our family to yours! XOXO!
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