Christmas festivities

On Christmas eve, we always go to Ryan's parents house. Which includes acting out the nativity by the chitlins.



Tianna, Cloe and Abbey, the angels
Brody a wiseman

and Charlotte making her debut as baby Jesus. She pretty much cried the whole time.

All the cousins


One of my favorite traditions that I've carried on from my childhood is opening Christmas pj's on Christmas eve. And they are also sporting some slippers that g'ma Brown made them. Another tradition.

Christmas breakfast. I got this cute idea from Ryan's cousins family.


Cloe with her stuff. the only one that would make a pile and pose. She's my organized child.





Christmas was so relaxing and great. I love watching the kids play with their new toys. They are so excited and play so well. It just seems more "magical" on Christmas with little kids.

We told the kids they had to wait for us to wake up before they could go downstairs. They did pretty good and did wait. Later that evening I asked Brody if he went downstairs before we woke up and with a smirk on his face he said "no". It doesn't take long to get the truth out of him. He finally admitted it and I thought it was cute because we all used to sneak out before our parents got up. How could we really expect them to contain their excitement.

We went to my moms for dinner, games and more presents. 363 more days until Christmas. Time to start thinking of my New Year goals. Weight loss at the top, of course.