Christmas Post.. Better late then never??

We had a busy, but VERY fun and relaxing Xmas weekend! I had to work Xmas eve and as soon as I got off we went over to Jeff's Brother Marks house. Mark had to work Xmas day so it worked out great for us to all get together on Xmas Eve. The weather was great and the boys tossed the football around outside for awhile. We then enjoyed a nice ham dinner, exchanged gifts, had some fun and laughs and came home to get ready for Santa. This post will include lots of pictures over that weekend!

My proof to Daddy on who ate all of the white trash I brought! :-) My niece Cheyenne

My Great Niece Chelynn

Niece Shiloh

My niece Che getting tackled Aleena, her daughter Chelynn and Sister Shiloh

My Nephew Blake taking a nap; guess its hard work getting older? His bday is on Christmas. :-)

Jeff's Brother Mark

Then we came home to get ready for Santa. The kids made up some cookies, we tracked Santa on NORAD, and I got busy wrapping gifts. One thing we forgot to do this year was read "Twas the Night before Christmas". It's something we started doing about 3-4 yrs ago; and we were so rushed when we got home I forgot. :-( I put trace the kids handprints each year so we can see how they grow as well (Thanks Donna for that idea)...

Here are the kids tracking Santa

Then we woke up Xmas Morning and opened our gifts..

Santa's cookies, milk and letter left behind.

Our gifts under the tree

our stockings and Santa Gift

LOL Don't we look so happy so early in the Morning!

After opening our gifts we went to my Sister Melanies house for Breakfast and a gift exchange between my family. I forgot to bring my camera so I'm bumming some pictures from Melanie
:-)
Melanie and my niece Lacie
Niece Lacie and Nephew Austin

Yeah I'm a dork; those are soccer cones on my ears..

My Brother in Law Michael and Jeff Showing there Xmas Spirit for there teams...

After having breakfast at Melanie's we exchanged gifts and hung out for a bit.. She was trying to get lunch ready for Michaels family, my mom, sister and cousin and her family. So we left and came home. We lounged around for hours playing games with the kids, waiting for my mom and sister to come here for dinner. It wasn't quite the same, but it is what it is! I am used to having a big meal on Xmas with lots of family... Anyways.. then we spent the weekend playing games, ALL weekend.. Battleship, Bingo, Xbox, Chinese Checkers etc. I think on Friday I stayed in my PJ's ALL day! That felt great....

More posts to come soon...