We started celebrating early this year. With my family, it worked out better to celebrate the Monday before Christmas. After church on Sunday, we loaded up and headed back to my home. We were greeted with a full house and good food. Everyone was able to be home for Christmas. Even Uncle Joe!
The kids played so well together. Now that we don't get to see them all the time, the kids like to make up for lost time and don't waste much time fighting. The adults played too. We filled the afternoon with lots of games and snacks. Our family favorite "Fishbowl" game even made an appearance.
Everybody was up bright an early the next morning. Even those who didn't want to be! Ha! Uncle Joe commented how hanging out with family always stressed the importance of abstinence! I'm glad we could help.
Christmas pajamas! I love it! They're close enough to the same size that I was able to order a two pack for Target for these guys.
This guy joined the party a little bit later after a nap. He's pretty cool stuff in his new hat and glasses.
And we had some little Divas running around too.
After stockings, we slowly made our way through opening all the presents. We like to take turns and see what everyone gets. This year, girls bought for girls and boys for boys. The catch was that we put a $5 limit on the gift. Everyone got pretty creative.
A real bad guy! He definitely thought Darth Vadar was pretty cool.
The rest of the day was filled with lots of playing and eating. Grammy surprised us girls with massages already scheduled for that day. So after putting everyone down for a nap, we headed to Parsons for a massage! It was wonderful! I think I need to do that a little more regularly!
We headed home that evening and discovered the next morning that we were passing around a stomach bug that weekend. Some of us had a rough 24 hours, but it was a short-lived sickness and didn't interfere with much of the Christmas break!
What a blessing it is to have family with which to celebrate and enjoy Christmas!
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