Well, Christmas has come and gone. It is my absolute favorite day of the year. For as long as I can remember, we have spent Christmas Eve and Christmas with my aunt and uncle, cousins and grandparents. When we built our house, one thing that was a must was enough room to host our ever-growing family for Christmas. So that's just we have been doing for the past three years. This was the first year, however, that EVERYONE was here and I couldn't be happier. For two days it was the constant chaos of family. As we were trying to get 20 people out the door for church on Christmas Eve, it felt a bit like that scene from Home Alone when they realize they slept in. "Who has Ben?" "Where is Grandpa?" "Who's riding with me?" I am proud to report, however, that we left no one home alone! We did however, have a great two days!!
Here is a picture of my Grandpa (he's 91!) with 5 of his great grandchildren
And here we all are eating our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of Lasagna
My kids couldn't have been happier to get just what they asked for from Santa. An organizing shelf for her art supplies (completely stocked, of course) for Abby
And a football helmet and pads for Ben
This is apparently as good as it gets....waiting to go downstairs and see what Santa brought
After breakfast, we open presents, one by one
And by the time we were done, I barely recognized my living room!!
What's the best thing I got for Christmas? Well, one of my favorites was a new shelf for the playroom so I could finally organize the books by color like I have been wanting to. I know, I have a sickness but it makes me sooooo happy!!
I was so glad to have all of my family here for Christmas and even though it is a whirlwind, I can't wait for next year!!
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