I'm finally posting Christmas pictures (only a month late)! We changed things up a bit this year, and Granny, Gramps and Scott actually came to our house for Christmas Eve/Christmas, which was a lot of fun! About two seconds after arriving, Grady had Gramps on the floor playing Candyland. Gramps was a very good sport!
We ate an early Christmas Eve dinner, and then got all dressed up for church. Unfortunately, I didn't really get a good picture of the boys in their sweater vests (yep, that's pretty much the staple dress up attire for little boys), but at least I got a couple decent ones. (One thing I love about having two kids the same gender is that I get to see all of the little outfits recycled....it didn't seem like that long ago that Grady was wearing this on Christmas!)
Fast forward to later that night..... After church the boys helped me make cookies for Santa, and we decided to make a blueberry pie as well! Landon's favorite part was eating the frozen blueberries. (I still had some left from when we picked blueberries last summer!)
Then Gramps read Twas the Night Before Christmas while we drank egg nog and sat by the fire. (I think this picture of Grady chugging his egg nog is hilarious!) Grady also spent a lot of time asking us lots of detailed questions about Santa....how does he get back up the chimney?, why doesn't he get his sleigh stuck in the trees when he's landing on houses?, are santa and jesus friends?, etc. There is just such magic in Christmas, and I so want him to keep that innocence forever!
On Christmas morning, the boys were beyond excited! We made them wait and go down together, and Grady could hardly contain himself. And so began the present opening! Grady was so happy that he got a marble tower, which was on his Christmas list. "Santa" apparently forgot to read the box though because the tower has 80 pieces. Yikes!
Landon got a riding mouse! And I am happy to report that he rides on it every single day.
Grady and Landon got bathrobes from Granny and Gramps, and they look so cute in them!
There was of course a small debate about whether the boys should be in their pajamas opening gifts or dressed. I kind of tend towards having them dressed for purposes of pictures, but Brandon is really into the pajama thing, so that's what we went with. This is probably why you're not seeing more pictures of present opening! While a 2-year-old and 4-year-old look adorable in pajamas, not so much for a 33-year-old. It became clear that the "cute pajama look" was really the "I just got run over by a tractor trailor look" for me! Next year I'm getting dressed first!
And I'm not even sure when this picture was taken, but it is just so funny so I had to post it. They didn't think a thing of it.... I mean, who doesn't love naked coloring?!?!
Later on Christmas day we headed to Pinehurst to celebrate with my family....Mimi, Popeye, Ma, Kevin, Carleen (and their little one!), Louis, Kelly, and Hannah. One of the first gifts the boys opened was from Kelly, Louis and Hannah - tarantulas. Their favorite thing to do was run up to everyone and scare them!
Hannah got a game and crib for her dolls.... The boys clearly enjoyed all of her presents as well!
And Christmas would not be complete without chocolate ice cream for dessert!
In addition to Christmas, we also got to celebrate Popeye's 70th birthday with him! We went out to a nice dinner, and all the grandkids helped him blow out his candles.
He got a new laptop from all of us!
No comments:
Post a Comment