Merry Christmas!

WARNING: This post will be long! 

The day before we left for Abilene, Jared and I decided to have our family of four Christmas at our house for several reasons.  One being, it was the boys’ first Christmas, and we wanted to take it all in.  The second reason being, there was no way we would be able to pack all our presents for each other and our gifts we bought for our families. 

So thankful for a timer on my camera to capture some of our family pictures. :)

Nothin like the weather channel on in the background. 

(I was lookin/hopin to see if we would have a white Christmas!)

Ready to eat and go to bed instead of pose for pictures

Gage wasn’t too interested in opening, just climbing

Gage showing off, he wants to walk so bad

Only one I got of Graham opening, he wasn’t feeling good

Sweet Graham needed some mommy cuddle time

Jared and I mainly got the boys books, a couple of toys and some clothes.  We knew they would get absolutely spoiled in Abilene.

We left for Abilene on Tuesday, December 20th, and stayed until Monday, December 26th. 

The first three nights, we spent with the Peels and the other three nights we spent with my family. 

We are so blessed to have a big family who LOVES and spoils us more than we deserve. 

Here are a ton of pictures to prove the amount of fun that was had.

First up, Granna and Easy’s house…

First morning we were there (Wednesday), Jared shot this buck, with his bow, that he has been watching on the camera for months!

Camden had to get in on these pictures too :)

Jared mainly wanted to take a picture with his boys, proud daddy

(And yes, Graham’s foot touched the deer so I had to immediately strip the pj’s off the boys and wash them:) )

the boys wanted to wear their reindeer shirt in honor of their daddy’s big day :)

daddy and Gage

“We love to climb all over daddy!”

LOVE Graham’s face in this picture

picture in front of Granna’s tree

Poor Graham needs a haircut but mommy wasn’t quite ready to do it

Yay for new shoes!

Braden helping the boys open presents

Thanks Aunt Brit, Braden, Camden and Coach for our new toy and clothes

Camden and Graham

Graham and Coach

Tryin on Cousin Camo’s UA hat

Thanks Granna and Easy, for a wonderful first Christmas with our boys and spoiling us all!

On to Honey and Papa G’s house…

Christmas cookie plate for Santa that Jared and I made

Helpin Honey in the kitchen

Christmas Eve morning (celebrated Christmas a day early bc Aunt Juju had to work on Christmas day), boys got these fun gifts from Honey and Papa G

Graham and Honey

Honey, Papa G and Gage

Family pajama pic

Crazy Aunt Juju and her outfits :)

JC and Julie’s first Christmas, married

LOVE my sister

It snowed on Christmas Eve all day, big flakes, just didn’t stick though. 

 

Can’t really see the snow, but we still had to take a picture because it was the boys’ first snow! 

Kisses from Honey

daddy is so funny!

Thank you Honey and Papa G for a Wonderful, memorable 1st Christmas with our boys! 

Thank you, to all our families for spoiling us with gifts, goodies, game nights, and family togetherness!

We are so thankful to have you all in our lives!

We love you!

 

And just for fun…

Here is what I looked like a year ago

Wowzas!