Christmas 2013

I know this is a little late, but this time of year is SO busy! 

We started off the festivities with my Day Care Christmas party! It's the one party of the year that almost every single parent comes to! 

Once the parents arrived, the kids did a little Christmas craft, had a bunch of yummy treats (I set up a table of treats and hot apple cider for the parents too).The kids had been practicing some Christmas carols to perform for their parents at the party for a couple of weeks and they were SO excited to sing them! They did such a GREAT job!!! They were absolutely adorable ringing their jingle bells and belting out the songs at the tops of their lungs! Then they got to open up their gift bags with all their little gifts from their friends. 

It's a pretty busy afternoon with everyone there, but I just loved it and I'm pretty sure the kids did too!!!

Nana Kathy had a week off of work and spoiled us a bit by taking Bill out to lunch and then bringing by this huge assortment of treats for me!!!!! 

She also brought Sawyer an early Christmas gift of a Rainbow loom.....it's this HUGE fad with the kids these days to make these rubber band bracelets for each other and trade them at school. Sawyer absolutely LOVES it!

Christmas morning we opened up gifts at home from Nana Jane that she sent! But did we get pictures of it? Nooooo......we facetimed with her while the kids were opening up their gifts so that's why we don't have any pictures :( She had gotten Sawyer this HUGE castle LEGO set that he was just dying to get started on and then Raylan got this enormous slide to play with outside. (Every time we go to pick him up from the nursery at church, he's playing on the slide) Thank you Nana Jane!!!! Hopefully next Christmas she will be with us!

We headed over to Nana & Papa's house in our jammies for breakfast and gift opening!

It looks like I'm never at any of these occasions.....

It was great having Alex's girlfriend, Shelbie and her daughter, Macie with us this year! 

Raylan and Macie were just into everything until Bill opened up his yearly tin of popcorn.....they planted themselves at that tin and stuffed their faces for the rest of the morning! Note to self: open up the popcorn first to keep those two occupied.

The gang.

What's cuter than two little kitties in a box? Two little kiddos in a box!

That afternoon, we were joined by the rest of the extended family to continue celebrating!

We had a delicious lunch of ham and two kinds of brisket!!

Sawyer making everyone Rainbow Loom bracelets. 

The evening ended with a cut throat White Elephant game and a dessert bar that would put Martha Stewart to shame! Another wonderful Christmas for the record books!