Merry Christmas!

I hope that everyone had a merry Christmas! I know that we did! On Christmas Eve, we always go to Mimi's house to open gifts with Shane's side of the family that all live in Fort Worth. This year was no different and we headed over to her house in the early evening. Three hours later, we finished up and headed home. I have no pictures, so imagine lots of loud relatives and even louder children running around and trying to outdo each other in the noise level... My kids knocked over three FULL drinks onto the carpet, (Landry poured one of them all down her front and ran around naked because the last time that she had an accident, I forgot to put a new shirt in the bag), choked on some chips and spilled cracker crumbs everywhere! It was a time to remember!:) Thank you Mimi for your hospitality.

When we finished with all of that excitement we headed back to the house and started all of our Christmas Eve traditions. We read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, decorated our Santa cookies, put out the milk (with a green straw from Gibson), made sure the reindeer had their carrots and then headed off to bed. Thankfully, with all of the excitement, by this time it was pretty late and the kids went straight to sleep.

Decorating our cookies...

The delectable treats left for Santa...

The next morning, Grace was the first out of bed and the rest tumbled after her pretty quickly. Grace got a bike from Santa and she told us later that as she was running through the living room to our room that she saw it and started to cry! Hayden got a tricycle from Santa, Landry was brought a rocking horse that she couldn't be less impressed with and Gibson got the Legos that he had asked for. Gibson, I think, was half shocked that he got anything. He told us later that their were, "no rocks!" (One of the little girls in his class at school told him that he was going to get a rock for Christmas and I think that he thought that she had a direct line to Santa.) 

Gibson with his Legos, just like Uncle Tom!

 

Here's the bike and the rest of the loot!

 

Hayden could hardly wait to jump on his new tricycle!

After we opened our family gifts, Shane's brother and sisters, parents and their kids came to our house and we had a huge Christmas again! Our extended family is getting huge! The cousins all had a great time playing together.

Jaimi with Pampa and Memaw from San Antonio.

Terry and Kelly

Landry talked on the phone the whole time

Grace with Cole and Corbin

I couldn't get all of them in the picture. Landry wasn't cooperating. Look how cute Hayden and Gibson look together!