Another Wonderful Christmas

Christmas 09 was just amazing! I do apologize I don't have any pics to put up yet ( still can't find the wonderful cord to my camera).

We started our festivities on Christmas Eve Eve! We took the kids and J's Aunt to see Alvin and the Chipmunks and it was such a cute movie. We all enjoyed oursleves and enjoyed seeing J's Aunt who lives in D.C.! It was the prefect way to start the festivities!!! We then had Christmas Eve at my Sister and Brother in laws house and it was soooo much fun! We hung out, ate and opened a gazillion presents! It was so many gifts that it seemed like Santa had come a night early. My van was loaded down!!!!

We then went home to straighten up and find places to put all of their new toys. We opened gifts from each other and gifts from Papaw J ( My dad)that he sent up to the kiddies for Christmas! We then set out our cookies, milk and we even sprinkled reindeer food on the lawn :) We tucked everyone into bed and it of course took everyone an hour or 2 to really fall asleep! The anticipation and excitement was too much for us to go to sleep, lol :)

We woke up Christmas morning at 7:40am to open gifts! My little Sunshine was even into it this year, she ran straight from her room to her new kitchen Santa left out ( it was so unexpected it was adorable)!!! I played Santa this year, it took us about an hour to open all presents! We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast... well and we had lots of chocolate that Santa left too! I forgot to buy Jesus' birthday cake this year so we sang Happy Birthday to him and then ate our cinnamon rolls! I am sure he didn't mind what we ate, since I made sure my kids know the real reason for such a great day! It was a truly a GREAT day... My brother and his fiance joined us Christmas morning. We exchanged gifts and they played with the kiddos! It was so enjoyable! This will probably be the last Christmas that my brother is home. He is joining the Air Force, so the fact that he came over was very special to us!!!!

We had a big Christmas Dinner at my Mother / Father in laws and man was it GOOD!!!! I hate enough to feed a small army, LOL! So many fun memories were made this year! We woke up the day after Christmas anticipating going to my moms for Christmas Brunch. Sadly my van wouldn't start and the 2 babies woke up with fevers :( It was a very rough start to what turned out to be a fabulous day! We made it to my beautiful Mom and Step Dads house a little late and to my surprise my Aunt and my cousin were there. I was so excited to see them because it had been awhile. The best gift of the whole year was seeing my Uncle ( who has cancer) peep around from the kitchen. I was so excited to see him and his beautiful wife!!! I of course hugged both of them! I sat by them to eat and I think I might have followed them from room to room the whole time ( stalker... I guess?!) I was just trying to eat up all of the time I had with them that morning! I am sure they were annoyed, but I honestly didn't even think about my goofy behavior until just now...oops! Sorry Uncle J and Aunt V!!!!! They know I am a big dork so I think it will all be ok! We ended up going home with a car full from there as well. It was a wonderful Christmas Brunch with my family!

We finished up Christmas of 09 at J's Grandma's House later that day! His Aunt was in from out of town and we always go over there when Christmas is over! We had a great time opening more gifts and chit chatting the whole time. The kids were winding down so we sadly couldn't stay there as long as we would have liked, but we had a great visit!

This Christmas was honestly the best Christmas we have ever had. Yes we got a ton of gifts, but even if we hadn't it would have still been the best. We were surrounded by family for 3 days straight and ate the best food we had all year! We also celebrated the birth of Jesus and recognized the day as a day for him and all he has done for us to be here! I say this a lot, but I am blessed beyond words! The Lord gave us such big and loving families and I couldn't be prouder to be apart of them all!

Hopefully I will get my pics up within the week, but it will be a posts in itself if I do!