God Bless Us, Every One...

Merry Christmas all! We had a very sweet first Christmas in our new house! It was very simple but the kids are still only 23 months and 8 months. We are excited for next year because we think Tre will finally understand the concept of "Santa." We had my parents over Christmas Eve. They hadn't seen the house yet since they had just returned from a 3 week trip to China the day before. They were such good sports considering their jet lag. I made a small dinner and we watched "Christmas Vacation", a family favorite. I get a kick out of my dad laughing and wheezing on parts of the movie he's heard a million times. We did our tradition of pajamas the night before. I got Tre "Lightning McQueen" jammies (he's really into CARS) and Brooklyn some pink leopard skin ones. They were very cute.


We woke Tre up about 7am. I guess we should enjoy that since I'm sure the time will get earlier and earlier as the kids get older.

He crawled downstairs to see what Santa brought.

It was really cute because he didn't even see the Christmas presents. He was too excited to see that Papa was still here from the night before and ran straight over to him with a squeal!

We got them their own chairs. A princess chair for Brooklyn and a CARS chair for Tre. (Do you sense a theme???)

Nana and Papa brought us great gifts from China. Were it not for them our tree wouldn't have been as decorated with presents. Thanks, Nana and Papa! You made it special!

That night we ended up going over to Freddy's oldest brother Spencer's house. We had intended to go over to Moe's house, one of his other brothers, but his wife Amy ending up delivering their new daughter, Soda Paisley, on Christmas day! Congratulations Amy and family! Spencer and Reta were kind enough to offer up their house at last minute. With tons of nieces and nephews, it a big sacrifice! When we got there Tre found the toy shopping cart and strolled Brooklyn around. It was hilarious!






Spencer had bought the new XBOX 360 game "Rock Band." It was really fun. I was impressed with every ones skills! It was fun actually hearing my husband sing by himself. Impressive!

My sisters-in-law Sondra and Reta. We missed everyone else! Freddy is 8 out of 9 kids so a lot of siblings and cousins were missing. It wasn't the same but it sure was a bit quieter than normal.

It's always the best part of the day to come home to your new toys. We were very blessed to have a healthy happy Christmas!