Here we go with the next few days of Christmas:
On the 26th my dad's side of the family got together, like we always do, and had a great meal, fellowship, and a gift exchange. Chloe and Grace had a fun time wandering around together - mostly up and down a little step between the living room and family room.
I drew Erin's name and Kevin drew Jared's name so we did a group gift for them - a new camp stove and some accessories :) Erin had my name this year and gave me a beautiful display jar, earrings and a sparkly scarf.....which I don't have any pictures of because it's hard to take a picture and unwrap a gift at the same time! :)
Laura and Bill were unable to travel because of their soon-to-come-baby, but we had them on a webcam for the gift exchange part of the evening. Here is Chloe saying hello to them on the computer:
We left directly from my grandma's house to Kevin's grandparents - and it ended up working pretty well....Chloe fell asleep and stayed asleep for the whole drive....which was good :)
The next morning we spent time checking out Mimi's porch (which is full of Christmas cookies!):
We also played with some toys and then by lunchtime everyone else had arrived and we watched Chloe and Noah open new toys from Mimi and Poppop. This is Chloe's "princess-mobile" and she loves it! She can climb on and off and likes to carry around the little girl that came with it. Grandma S. helped Chloe figure everything out:
I'm mostly posting this picture for Uncle Mark.....Here is our fabulous Christmas dinner:
After dinner the rest of us exchange gifts and then we got to exchange with Kevin's parents. We were going to host them at our house for the holiday but Kevin's dad was sick and couldn't make the trip. So, we had a little gift-opening party at Mimi and Poppop's. Chloe liked opening up her new doll:
and some legos!
I got a new necklace:
and Kevin can now make a whole pancake breakfast at one time! :)
We had a great time with both sides of the family. We got home on Tuesday evening, had two busy days at home and then hit the road again for the New Year's weekend. Because I'm sure you're already on picture overload, that will wait until another post :)
On the 26th my dad's side of the family got together, like we always do, and had a great meal, fellowship, and a gift exchange. Chloe and Grace had a fun time wandering around together - mostly up and down a little step between the living room and family room.
I drew Erin's name and Kevin drew Jared's name so we did a group gift for them - a new camp stove and some accessories :) Erin had my name this year and gave me a beautiful display jar, earrings and a sparkly scarf.....which I don't have any pictures of because it's hard to take a picture and unwrap a gift at the same time! :)
Laura and Bill were unable to travel because of their soon-to-come-baby, but we had them on a webcam for the gift exchange part of the evening. Here is Chloe saying hello to them on the computer:
We left directly from my grandma's house to Kevin's grandparents - and it ended up working pretty well....Chloe fell asleep and stayed asleep for the whole drive....which was good :)
The next morning we spent time checking out Mimi's porch (which is full of Christmas cookies!):
We also played with some toys and then by lunchtime everyone else had arrived and we watched Chloe and Noah open new toys from Mimi and Poppop. This is Chloe's "princess-mobile" and she loves it! She can climb on and off and likes to carry around the little girl that came with it. Grandma S. helped Chloe figure everything out:
I'm mostly posting this picture for Uncle Mark.....Here is our fabulous Christmas dinner:
After dinner the rest of us exchange gifts and then we got to exchange with Kevin's parents. We were going to host them at our house for the holiday but Kevin's dad was sick and couldn't make the trip. So, we had a little gift-opening party at Mimi and Poppop's. Chloe liked opening up her new doll:
and some legos!
I got a new necklace:
and Kevin can now make a whole pancake breakfast at one time! :)
We had a great time with both sides of the family. We got home on Tuesday evening, had two busy days at home and then hit the road again for the New Year's weekend. Because I'm sure you're already on picture overload, that will wait until another post :)
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