Christmas with My Parents

The day after Christmas we headed over to my parents house to open presents with my mom, dad, and Lindsey.  Growing up we always opened at our house on Christmas morning and then went to my grandparents.  When Ryan and I got married we still went over to my parents house in the morning, and then went to his side of the family, and then on to my grandmas.  Now that we have Brynn we want to do presents at our house on Christmas morning, and it is just too much to try to hit 3 other places, plus this year we had church.  So...this was the first year EVER that we opened presents on a day other than Christmas...but it was still just as wonderful.  My mom made a BIG breakfast with biscuits and gravy and then we passed out gifts and opened them one by one.

Brynn playing with Aunt Lindsey before the festitivies began. 

When we were born my mom cross-stitched us beautiful stockings.  She made one for Ryan when we got married, and this past year she has been working away on Brynn's.  Now she is going to have to start on one for Curt...wow...that's a lot of cross-stitching! 

Lots of fun stuff in the stocking...puffs, yogart melts, a new sippy cup...what more could a girl want?

Lindsey passing out the gifts.

We tried to keep Brynn occupied in the jumper so she wouldn't go crazy crawling all over the presents...and it was working great until the very first present.  She "opened" (helped rip some paper) a little puzzle and when I tried to put it down in her pile (in the hopes that she might forget about it for an hour so we could keep opening) she started crying because she wanted to play with it! HAHA!  Needless to say, she got to spend the rest of the "present opening session" up in everyone's business playing with all their stuff!

Yep...there she is right in the middle of everyone!

She LOVES the crinkly loud plastic that things are wrapped in. 

Little Miss Thang!

HAHAHA!  My parents were so excited about this present (which is ironic because they never wear bike helmets and never made us wear them when we were little).  They got Ryan one of those bike carrier things so that he can ride his bike and Brynn can ride behind him.  They know how crazy he is about bike safety so they decided to go ahead and get Brynn a bike helmet!  (It is so cute...it has little pink bunnies on it!)  Evidently it is quite tricky to find an infant bike helmet, but they finally managed to find one that will actually adjust and she can wear it for a long time.  I think bike helmets are nerdy, but she might be able to pull it off...haha!

She wasn't really a fan of having it strapped on. 

I can't wait to see Ryan and Brynn out for a bike ride!

Thanks Mom and Dad for a wonderful Christmas!