Christmas celebration continued...

We were so happy that our relatives from Boone were able to join us to continue celebrating Christmas through the weekend!  Jess & Jon stay with his Mom, Megan & Marty stayed with us and Marty & Renae stayed with my parents.  Grandma Joan was still here to take in the madness :) We had everyone over for enchiladas on Friday night, and then we all went to my parents on Saturday night.  All the kids had a blast playing together.  We were lucky to get snow the day after Christmas, (would have been nice if it happened on Christmas Day) so we took the kids out sledding. It was really cold and Easton wasn't feeling well.  He woke up with an ear infection on Saturday morning.  Poor buddy was miserable!  I took him into the clinic and got some antibiotics, and he was feeling much better by Sunday.  One of his ear tubes fell out a week or so before that, and unfortunately he got an ear infection right away :(  But all in all we had a great weekend, and it was wonderful celebrating with my extended family. 

Maddox, Callen & Mikail

Megan, Alice, Maddox & Mikail. You can see Easton holding his ear with his blankie, poor guy :(

Teddy giving Easton a hug & kiss good-bye!

Merry Christmas!

We woke up and the kids got to play with some of the new toys they got last night.  Mark and I stayed up putting them together :)  

If you see the powdered sugar on his face, yes we did have donuts :)

Then we went to Mass and low and behold- SANTA came!  It didn't take long to unwrap and enjoy all the gifts!  Easton was almost overwhelmed this year.  I think we all learned that you really only need to get him a couple things.  He wants to play with each thing he opens, and sometimes didn't even care to open another.

 

Next on the agenda was NAPS! 

 

But after that, we went back over to my parents house.  We enjoyed a delicious feast Mom & Dad made apple glazed pork chops, they were awesome!

We had a beautiful Christmas.  I love my family, and love this time of year.  There is just something so magical about it!  It was great having my Grandma Joan there to share it with us.  And having Bob & Dee over was great too.  The more the merrier! We are use to large crowds on holidays, and that's something I hope never changes.  Mark of course spoiled me this year, I was so happy with my gifts.  A beautiful Tacori ring from the boys, a blanket fit just for a Mommy, and a Fitbit.  I should never under estimate his gift giving skills, he always comes out on top! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, we sure did :)

 

Festive Days @ daycare

The week of Christmas daycare had dress up days.  We had fun with it!

Monday was festive hat day, we had big decisions.  Either reindeer or Santa?:

Tuesday was Snowman day:

Wednesday was Red/Green Day:

Take note of the shirt: "All Mommy wants is a Silent Night"- it didn't happen ;)

Nellie got in on the fun!

Easton loves his little brother!