Our Christmas

What an awesome Christmas we’ve had!  Here’s a recap…

Christmas Eve we cooked a big pot of soup and had a couple people over for dinner, then headed to the Christmas Eve service at our Church. 

We came back and the kids got to open their very first Christmas presents! 

 

Ryder got a 4-wheeler from Mary that he’s had so much fun on!  And they each got Christmas pajama’s from Doodle! 

Once we got them all cozy in their jammies and ready for bed, we had to get our plate of goodies ready.  HoHo’s for Santa, Cookies for the Reindeer, a glass of milk…and 30 minutes after bed, Ryder screamed for me because he “jus’ remembered that Santa would really like a chip!” and so we added a chip to the plate.

So everyone went to bed and Santa came! He really did!

He left presents, crumbs, and Rudolph even took a bite out of the cup of milk!

Ryder woke up at 4:45 on Christmas morning!  So we got a very early start!  Luckily he was awake but wasn’t quite sure why he was having such a hard time sleeping, so I was able to bring him to our bedroom, wake Maisy up and feed her, and put on coffee all before he realized that he needed to go check and see if Santa came!  Opening presents was SO MUCH FUN!!!

Ryder appreciated every single thing he got, he made us feel so good with all of his excitement.  And yes, Santa did bring him a boat and a space station!! :)

  

(Note to self: Next year pay attention to how many pieces things have BEFORE you buy them…my goodness!)

It was just funny to see that he got WAY more excited about things we got him that we knew he would love, rather than the things he asked for!  Like this gas station for his car:

Our next stop was to my mom’s to have Christmas breakfast with Yaya and the rest of our family.

 

How adorable are Maisy & Conner…little matching cousins!

Yaya & Paw-Paw got Ryder his very own tablet!!  Or as he calls is “his really big phone!”  He absolutely loves this thing, I pre-loaded it with all of his favorite apps and his favorite songs…I can finally get my phone back :)

Every year I do really good at taking pictures in the morning and as the day progresses and the exhaustion sets in the pictures fade!  Our next stop was to Alan’s Grandma’s house, here is the one and only picture I took there:

Then we headed to Poppy’s for dinner…no pictures :(  Shew, what a long day.  When we got home Maisy crashed, but Ryder stayed up until midnight playing with all of his new stuff. 

The next day we literally didn’t get out of our pajama’s all day, this has become a tradition for us.  Nana came over to exchange presents though, and Ryder got another really cool big present! 

His very first bike!  Miss Stacey said we could bring it to therapy and she’d help him learn how to ride it!! 

Here we are 2 days after Christmas and we’re still opening stuff and enjoying watching the kids play.  They are at such cute ages, especially because some of the things that Maisy got are still fascinating to Ryder.  Like this ferris wheel toy from Yaya:

  

What a sweet sight, to watch my two babies playing together!  We all got the best gifts from Santa, eachother, and our family!!

Leading up to Christmas day definitely brought a lot of “craziness” but as you can see, nothing can take the Spirit of Christmas from us.  We celebrated Jesus’ Birthday…and eachother!  Having my little family is my best gift ever that I get to celebrate all year long! 

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!