Christmas Day 2013

We had such a great day celebrating Christmas with our families!!  We are so blessed that both our families live nearby.  Even though it's a little hectic, we are able to spend time with both Ryan's family and my family throughout the day!! 

We started the morning off by waking this little one up around 7:30.  Even though she's been congested and sick, she did so well all day!  (It must have been a little Christmas miracle, because she had a rough night that night and we found out a couple of days later that she had developed her first ear infection...boo!)

Brynn must have been WORN OUT from our Christmas Eve party because we had to go in and get her up around 8:45.  She was so excited to see what was in her "tocking" and to open presents!

She wanted to get out all of Emory's stuff and show her everything.  It was too cute!

Then she kept taking Emory's little hands and tried to get her to "open" her presents.

She has talked about wanting this princess umbrella ever since Ansley got one in July.  She was thrilled!  She walked all over the house with it and about knocked over half the house while she was parading around!

Then we headed to Ryan's grandma's cottage/clubhouse to celebrate with his family.  Gigi lives in her own cottage, but all the residents share a clubhouse and it is so nice!  So we all met there for Christmas lunch.  It lets Gigi still feel like she's "hosting" everyone, and it is so special.  This year there were several other residents and their families who also joined us for lunch.  Some can be a little crotchety and we have been laughing since last year about one lady who kept yelling "I NEED A FORK...AND BRING MY DESSERT!"  This year we had a new funny story because Ryan looked out the clubhouse window and goes "uhhh...who is that old lady SITTING IN OUR CAR?'  HAHA!  I guess we forgot to lock it, and this older lady got confused and just opened our car and sat there.  Ryan went out to ask her (nicely of course) what she was doing in our car.  She said she was waiting for her daughter to pick her up.  OH MY WORD.  He helped her find her daughter, who was clearly not in our car.  WHAT??  HAHA!

We made all the grandparents and great-grandparents a really cool handprint and footprint calendar.  They turned out so cool, but if I decide to make another one of those in the next ten years, someone please remind me that I've lost my mind.  HA!

Yep...it was a hit!

Uncle Dave sharing about Christ being the light of the world, before we opened some presents.

Brynn helped Emory put her little candle on her tummy.  HA!  (They were the fake ones of course)

Everyone in the clubhouse...all of our family plus some other residents and their families.

After lunch we headed to Oran to my grandparents house.  We hung out awhile and then it was time to let the little kids open presents.  My grandparents got all their great-grandchildren presents, and then everyone else brought a "favorite thing" and we played Dirty Santa with the presents.  It was so much fun!

My Aunt Gina got in some snuggle time with Emory.

Sofia stuff is a big hit right now!  Thank you Granny and Pawpaw!

Erika's youngest, Bowen, had a Christmas "blow-out".  It was so bad he had to have his clothes washed,
so he was hanging out in his diaper for awhile.

We got to give Granny and Pawpaw their calendar.

Everyone, especially Granny and Pawpaw, got lots of time snuggling with little Emory.  I love seeing all my family members love on her!

Morgan and Ty...luckily Ty got this scarf stolen from him because I don't know that he was thrilled to open it!  HA!

With several cute scarves in the Dirty Santa game, we had a lot of steals going around among the girls.  At one point, Kelly stole a scarf from Ty, only to have it stolen by me, so she stole Erika's scarf.  Then after Erika opened a present that had another scarf in it, my grandma stole it from her, she stole her old scarf back from Kelly, who stole the scarf I was wearing, so I stole from my Grandma, etc.  IT WAS CRAZY!  But SO MUCH FUN!  Thankfully we all ended with scarves we liked!

Oh I love these girls so much!  And can I just say that as much as I love the Aztec cardigan I'm wearing, when I see myself in pictures, I totally think it adds about 50 pounds.  I think I was saying something about that and Kelly and I got so tickled and we were all cracking up!

Erika?? 

Erika??? What are you doing in this picture?

We've taken family pictures and groups of grandkids, etc. every year.  But this year with little kids running around and taking naps, we just never got around to ours.  Good job Huffman clan...(minus Bowen).

We left my grandma's around 6:15 and headed home.  It was a great, great day!!  The girls both did so well with napping in other places and it was so much fun and so special getting to visit with all of our families!  We came home and unloaded and just hung out as a family of four.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!