Home for the Holidays

Santa came!!

Our most precious gifts

Max's first snow- and the lovely manger scene

PawPaw and the cousins

The cousins and Nana

Grandaddy and Callie

Max likes opening gifts!

Santa Baby

Callie's First Dance Recital

It has been so much fun these past 2 weeks getting to be at home with Callie Grace and Max. I love Christmas time! There are so many different reasons why this is my favorite time of year. It's so great to be off of work for a while so that I can actually spend some quality time with my children. It's also a time for us to see all of our family. My sister and nieces came down and spent a few days here. It's fun getting the cousins together. Callie Grace loves them SO MUCH! Of course we spent time with our parents, too, but this Christmas morning was especially special- now that our family is finally complete, it was really nice for the 4 of us to wake up on Christmas morning in our own house to see what Santa brought. This is really only our 2nd time to not have any other family here. It's different, but it's fun to start new traditions. Then we all drove to Grammie's house to spend the rest of the day. And no one could believe that we had an actual WHITE CHRISTMAS!! Not sure that's ever happened in my lifetime.
But the real reason that this is my favorite time of year is because it is when baby Jesus was born. Thank you God, for the gift of your Son.
We are teaching CG all about the real meaning of Christmas and she's so cute- she just LOVES baby Jesus and it's precious. When we were trying to pick out a blow up Christmas thing for the yard this year, we were asking Callie if she wanted the snowman or the Santa Claus (because they were the cheapest!!). She kept insisting that we get the manger scene with baby Jesus- the only problem was that it was $100 and we were NOT planning on spending that much for 'yard art'... We kept trying to push for the other ones, and she started crying in the store b/c she only wanted Jesus. Next thing we knew, that silly manger scene was in the shopping cart and we were out a hundred bucks! Oh the things you do for your kids. So every night this month she asks "Can I go see if baby Jesus blew up yet?" haha