Christmas Morning

 Our Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve, ready for the morning!

Like many other families, we wake up on Christmas morning and enjoy opening presents together!

 Our kiddos and Beau ready to open presents

 Jack

 Kylie

 Megan

 Beau opening his present

 My fun giftcard to get a massage!

 Dan and his xBox game 

 Me and my Bugga

 Me and my Beausef

 Jack and books he loves!

 Megan thrilled with her new curling iron!

 An awesome phone charger from my Tweeter - in pink chevron no less!

 Dan with his NVVA volleyball shirt he's so excited for!

 My kiddos gave me a sweet little cross and wrapped it all up

 My Jack and me

 My Moopert and Me

 Bugga made and wrapped a present for Dan and I

 This cute frame and picture of her!

 Me and my Christmas Tweeter

Our Family ready to head out to brunch at Mark and Heather's

Christmas Eve Stockings

We get our stockings on Christmas Eve after church and dinner :)  This year we revamped a "Kuwait" stocking Dan had gotten from work 2 years ago for Beau!  I sewed a new topper for it in a cute red plaid I had on hand and voila! a new stocking!

We lined them all up on the sofa

Our kiddos had to wait upstairs and then come down

They all get their own container of gum that they can eat whenever they want, some chocolate and a new pair of pajamas and random other things :)

Beau got his stocking, as well as a new toy from his friend Maisy :)

Dan got to open his stocking

My little kiddos in their Christmas pajamas, Megan and Dan

And our Beausef exhausted on the floor!

Christmas Eve Service and Dinner

We went to church at the 3pm service on Christmas Eve.  Grammy and Grandad got there early and saved us seats - we walked in with about 2 minutes until it began.  It was a great service with candlelight.  We got to chat with friends from Blacksburg that we hadn't seen in years and their 2 daughters who were just little when we knew them and now they are in college and about to graduate high school!  

We then headed out to dinner at Anita's while Grammy and Grandad went to their house to meet up with Uncle Johnny and Karen for dinner!

Grammy, Grandad and the kiddos

Candlelight service

Our Family

Dinner at Anita's 

Me and Megan

Me and my Tweeter

Christmas Caroling in the Neighborhood

On the way down to the TSO concert, I sent out a message to our neighbors asking if anyone wanted to go Christmas caroling on Friday night!  No frills, no amazing voices, just belting out holiday cheer for our neighbors!  We had 25 friends come out to carol with us and had a blast!  It was cold, but not windy (which was an answer to prayer) and we lasted 1 hour before having to head inside to warm up.  I printed off song sheets and gave each of the kids glow bracelets and we had a blast!  Everyone wants to have it be an annual tradition, so hopefully we can do it next year!

Caroling door to door!

Jack's Class Christmas Party

Jack had a Christmas Party the day after Kylie's and I got to help out in his classroom, too!

Alec, Angel and Jack enjoy ice cream sundaes

Getting ready to do a snowman head egg and spoon race

Playing a spoon game

Jack's cool ornament he made - by squeezing glitter paint in the ball and swirling it around

Andrew, Jack, Angel and Alec

And his class!

Kylie's Class Christmas Party

Kylie had a Christmas Party at school - I got to help out and had a blast!

Her table with her teacher

Snacks and ice cream

With Erin making Christmas Ornaments

And doing a book exchange!

Me and my Bugga

The Reindeer Candy Cane she was given to take home :)