Christmas Wrap Up

We celebrated Christmas a few day's early with my dad's side of the family.

My cousin, Jared, was in from Seattle for this Christmas.  It's been 2 years since we'd seen him last.

Aunt Linda, Grandma Smith, Alyssa, Shae, Steve, Me, my dad, and Cousin Jared

After this Christmas celebration we went to Steve's family's Christmas.

We didn't stay very long as it was late when we arrived and were stuffed to the gills already from eating at my family's celebration.

Christmas Eve was just as busy.

We got all dressed up and I tried out a new hairstyle on Alyssa

Here I am!  24 Weeks 3 Days!

This is Steve with his Mom and Sister

We haven't been able to celebrate Christmas together for quite awhile, so this year was pretty special

We had a big Christmas ham dinner before we headed out to church for their evening Christmas service.

My favorite part was the candle light service towards the end as we sang with the lights dimmed down, the candle light was beautiful.

 We headed home after church to open gifts

This "Little Brother" onsie set was from Steve's Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Carlos for Carter.  They sent it along with Steve's mom for us.  Very thoughtful.

Then it was time to get ready for Santa Claus!

She put out the reindeer food

 Milk and Cookies of course

Lucy her elf on a shelf had to fly his way back to the North Pole with Santa

 

 She tracked Santa one more time on her Kindle

 

And we read the Night Before Christmas

She fell right to sleep too.

Then 6:30am Christmas Day...

She was up and freaking out over all the presents, the missing milk and cookies, and that Santa had left her a note

This is the ONE thing she REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted and asked Santa for...

And American Girl Doll

Marie Grace

Her Grandma came over for breakfast and to see all her new toys.

Once we got things straightened up around the house we headed over to my parents house to exchange gifts.

This is Alyssa in front of their Christmas Tree
This is where we got a lot of Carter's Christmas Gifts from THIS POST

Gramma and Papa stocked her up on accessories for her AG doll

Aunt Shae Shae with one of the onsies she bought for Carter

 

The onsies I made for my mom and dad from Carter

Mom is a NASCAR fan

Dad is a Motorcycle Man

After opening gifts it was time for a NAP.  So we took things home, took a nap, got cleaned up, and headed back over to their house a couple hours later for dinner.

My Aunt Linda and cousin Jared joined us again for that.

Over all, we had such a packed schedule of events and gatherings going on over 3 days.

We are very blessed with such a wonderful family to celebrate with.