Christmas Day

We were all still a little overwhelmed with all the presents we got on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.  BUT, we were ready for more!  We headed to Aunt Gayle's and Uncle Mark's to celebrated Christmas Day with the Priesmeyer family.  After having a Mexican feast on Christmas Eve, we were ready for the Italian feast we would have for lunch that day.  It was absolutely fantastic!!!

As always, everyone is so generous.  Look at all those gifts!  And there were still two families that hadn't arrived yet!

Jackson and Nik were glued to Skylanders.  That is really a great game!

After lunch, it was time to open presents.  And the chaos ensued!!!

Trevor gave Melissa this giraffe for her baby's nursery.  She was lucky to get it out the door!

Then it was time for family photos.

When Mike got dressed in his uniform, Jackson got all starry-eyed and asked him for a picture.  It was too cute!

The little girls would be gone for hours at a time it seemed.  I went upstairs and found this...  Kristen and Meghan have a great Polly Pocket collection!!!

The rest of the evening was spent eating, drinking, visiting and playing games.  It was a great time!

Christmas Morning!

We woke up Christmas morning and Santa had come!!!  The kids were sooo excited!  Santa ate some of the cookies we put out for him and drank all the milk.  We left the reindeer some carrots too and they almost all of them.  Jackson also left two pictures for Santa, but he forgot to take them with him.  Oops!!!  But, as always, Santa left them a letter saying how good they had been all year.

Jackson and Jordan's sacks were full!!!

So the gift opening commenced...

Yay!!!  Underwear!!!

 An Easy Bake Oven!!!

 Skylanders!!!

 

 Santa was desparate for a box!  Jordan's watch was wrapped in a Velveeta box.  She opened it and said "Oh!  I got CHEESE!!!

Jordan got bunk beds for her baby boys!

Christmas morning was great!  The kids loved all of their gifts.  We spent the rest of the morning playing Skylanders and putting together Jordan's baby bunk beds.  Then it was off to Aunt Gayle's for Christmas with the Priesmeyers.

Christmas Eve

We made our way to El Campo to celebrate Christmas Eve with the Stock family.  After packing up the car, we put out the reindeer food that Jackson made in school.  He was worried that they wouldn't see it because of the rain that was coming in.  But we assured him that they would see it just fine.

So off we went to El Campo.  We delivered a few presents and then made our way Nana and Papa's house.  We rested there for a little while and then went to visit Aunt Dana and Uncle Ryan.  There we noticed that Reed needed his two front teeth from Santa too!

 After playing for a little while, it was time to get ready for Church.  We had a few minutes before we left, so we took a few pictures of us all dressed up.  This doesn't happen very often!

Then we were off to Church at 5.  There we experienced our Christmas miracle.  Jackson and Jordan were both SO GOOD in Church.  Jordan slept a little while, so that helped her, but Jackson was a perfect angel.  Kenny and I were so proud of him.  I think he was trying to get those last minute brownie points for Santa.

After Church we went back to Nana's to eat and open presents.  Shelley couldn't be there because she was sick and boy did we miss her.  As always, the kids had way too much!

Nana started by reading the kids a letter from Santa.

We're converting him little by little. :)

Jordan's first volleyball!!!

And introducing Todd.  Jordan's new baby boy and Max's baby brother.

Christmas Eve was great as usual.  The kids played with their new toys for a little while, and then it was time to head home and get ready for Santa and another great day.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and joyful Christmas!!!

Christmas Programs

With Christmas comes the kids' Christmas programs.  The first program we attended was Jackson's.  He sang with his class first, then all three kindergarten classes sang together.  You could really tell that Jackson enjoyed singing this year.  He really belted it out!

Then we attended Jordan's Christmas Caroling program a couple of days later.  Jackson sang in this one too.  He is considered an "after-schooler" there, so he participated as well.

Jordan was a candy cane.  Look at Jackson cheesing it up in the back!

Following the Christmas carols, Santa always make his entrance.  Jordan is still not a big fan of Santa, so the best we could do is get her to wave at him.  Jackson, on the other hand, was anxious to sit on his lap.  He told Santa he wanted his two front teeth.  Santa was amazed.

 

We're busy at home getting ready for the Big Man to make his appearance Sunday morning.  We're all very anxious for Christmas this year.