Christmas 2013

 

Christmas time is hands down the best time of year!  Since having C, the magic of Christmas for us has been restored and we love seeing Christmas through her eyes.  She has been in awe over all of it, from the smallest Christmas decoration to the largest Christmas lights display.

 

On Christmas Eve, my mom, Brent, C and I went to Nashville to Opry Mills to see Frozen and to see Opryland's light display.  It has been years since I've seen the lights at Opryland and it was everything I remember it being.  C didn't know which way to turn her head next.

 

            

                   

 

We came home in enough time to regroup and put our jammies on before heading out to church for the midnight service. 

 

 

Christmas morning, Santa left a few things despite one little girl's fear of him.  She decided last minute that she didn't mind him coming to her house.  :)

 

 

 

We spent the day hanging out, playing with new toys and then going to my Nanny's for dinner.

 

This year was a little bit more special at my Nanny's because she present all of us grandkids with a quilt made out of my Poppy's old shirts.  This marked our 5th Christmas without him and it could not have been a better time to make us these quilts.  She has worked hard for several months on these and they turned out perfect.  It will be hard not to think of him every time we snuggle up on the couch.

 

 

The day after Christmas we had dinner at my Granny's and spent time with my Dad's side of the family. 

C trying to be like her Pap.

 

After we left my Granny's, we headed up to Indiana to spend the weekend with Brent's family.  This is the part of our Christmas that I never want to forget.

 

We got to Brent's parent's house around 12:30am.  I had worked that morning which means I got up around 5:30am so it was already a long day for me.  I didn't sleep on the way up because I wanted to be a trooper since Brent couldn't sleep, I wasn't going to either.  C passed out about 2 hours into our trip but perked up when we got to her grandparent's house.

 

We finally went to bed around 1am but C's excitement got the best of her.  She could NOT go to sleep and was determined not to let us sleep either.  Around 2:30am, Brent went to the couch thinking she would sleep better in the bed.  No such luck.  At 4am, I finally turned the tv and at 5am she told me I could turn it off and she FINALLY went to sleep.  If you are doing the math, I was up for almost 24 HOURS!  I had no idea my body was even capable of such a thing but the kicker was she only slept for about 4 hours and then was up and ready for the day.  I have never in my life!  At least she was making the most of her time with everyone.

 



 This is her at 4:12am watching tv.

 

C has so much fun being around her cousins.  They all play well with one another and have a blast.

 

 

 

Matching jammies is now a MUST every year.  So cute!

 

And to wrap up our Christmas, the Monday after Christmas, we spent the evening with my family.  It was my brothers last day in town and C needed her some Mo time.

 



 Watching movies with Mo on his iPad.

 

We were on the move a lot this year but we enjoyed being around family and spending time with everyone.  C is already wishing it was Christmas again and I can't blame her.  It was a pretty good time.