Well, we actually pulled it off. For awhile, I wasn’t sure if we’d be ready for Christmas, or if we’d have a nice Christmas because of all the “stuff” we had to do. But, in the end, everything was done, everything was wrapped (thanks to my brother and sister-in-law who stayed up late with us one night to help), and we all had a great Christmas.
Like every year, we had a few celebrations. We celebrated with my family on the 23rd, we had our own family celebration Christmas morning. Then we went over to my inlaw’s house and celebrated with them later that morning. And finally, we had a celebration with my Father-in-law’s siblings and their families later that afternoon.
Here are some pictures from the celebration with my family…
All the little grandkids:
Our family photo (though a little blurry…I need to ask for a copy from one of my siblings):
The boys and my parents:
Pictures of our house on Christmas Eve…
The tree in light:
The “twilight” tree:
The mantel:
Christmas Day photos…
The gift from Cody, our Elf (with some awesome Christmas morning hair!):
The boys and my inlaw’s:
Buster:
Buddy:
Brothers:
The boys got some awesome gifts. They are definitely spoiled. So far, Buddy’s favorite present was his Xbox 360 Kinect and Buster is really enjoying his Nintendo 3DS.
Jdaddy got me a Kindle, so I finally feel like I’m up-to-date with technology. I received several other nice gifts as well. I’m truly blessed.
Oh, and I finally got my act together and finished Buster’s 5th year photo show. Here it is:
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Welcome back!
I was thinking about you the other day and hoping that all was well. I’m glad that you had a great Christmas with your family.
Sounds like you had an amazing Christmas!
Sandy
I’m so glad you had a good Christmas!
I love the pictures, especially the family one!
Re Nick’s 5 year video, it was a perfect song for a wonderful son! You are truly blessed to have such great sons and just think…another one on the way! We are so proud of you and Jdaddy, you have given us grandsons that are so wonderful!
And…just watching the video made your Dad cry again!
Looks like you had a great Christmas!
Another awesome video, KMama! sniff sniff… Great photos and perfect music! Our grandsons are so sweet and we just love them to pieces!!!
Yea! Glad your Christmas was wonderful- what a busy one but so awesome that you have so much family close that you get to go celebrate with. Great 5 year video- very fun songs. So nice to have the pictures in a slide show like that. I really need to do something more with our pictures- so easy to let them live on the computer.
So much fun and the boys look so big wow time flies!!
BEAUTIFUL Tree. Santa did awesome.