whobody had a wonderful christmas?

Here they are! Our pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

It feels like that was so very long ago (but, it really wasn't).

Our Christmas Eve tradition is to go to church with Jason's family here in Garnavillo.  Mass is at 4:00, so beforehand, I tried to get some good pictures of the kids in their 'Christmas outfits'. (This is usually struggle…since we always seem to be running short on time…and we had to wake Cruzie up from his nap to get him ready.)

Here are the boys…as you might be able to see…

Nash is the current problem when it comes to getting a good picture of the kids together.

They are just too cute, if you ask me!!

After church we head to Grandma and Grandpa "Tractor's" house and have dinner and open gifts with Mason, Cagney and Devin. The kids love to play with these cousins…and I love that these cousins are getting old enough where they can watch kids like Cruz…and we adults can mostly just chat!

When we got home from Grandma's we set out some treats and goodies for Santa and his reindeer…and headed to bed!  

Keaton and Lola were of course up by 6…

Nash slept a little later…

and everyone had to wait for Cruzie to get up at 8 so we could open our Santa presents!!! 

(Nash looks a little rough here…and shortly after we opened presents, we found out why….poor kid.) Both Nash and Lola ended up with the stomach flu on Christmas day, but they DID both still enjoy themselves, and weren't too much worse for the wear.  

Uncle Thom still came out to visit and play with the kids and that made their day! They loved playing all of their new games with him!

Look at Nash's face in this picture….I think he wanted a guitar too. In Santa's defense, he claimed he wanted everything on his list PLUS everything that Keaton and Lola had on their lists.

We had a wonderful Christmas. 

For the first time (ever, I think), I felt like the kids didn't' get "too much" and the amount of new stuff wasn't as overwhelming as normal…for everyone! 

Phew. Although the kids were a little under the weather, we had a great day and night just spending time together as a family.  

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas too!