The gifts just keep coming!

We have had a fabulous Christmas week at our house!

We celebrated with Jason’s dad and his wife on Sunday afternoon. The kids had a blast with Grandad and Beth. Bradley got a tball set and about took out a few decorations with it. I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to open it inside! Parker got the telescope she has been asking for and Emery got her favorite- High School Musical dvds. It was great. We actually purchased our very first Honey Baked Ham. We fell like we have marked adulthood since we have always had one at Christmas, but never had to actually purchase it! We love living off of others honey baked ham!

Sunday night, we spent with my parents and sister and her family. It was fun. We have 5 kids between us- 9 and under! Let’s just say there were a lot of presents in one room! We also had the token “lost” aka “misplaced gifts.” Don’t worry, we have found them since, but it is somewhat of a family tradition to hear my mom say, “I know there is something else…”
I am following in her footsteps since I also lost Jason’s collection of Chronicles of Narnia that I bought him last year, only to find it last month! I got this great Vera Bradley purse from Kim and lots of clothes from Mom and Dad. Good times!

Christmas Eve, we celebrated with our church family and my parents and Kim’s with a candlelight communion service. It was great. I did have to exit with Bradley and the concourse was packed with the 2 and under crowd! It was somewhat comical! Jason and I watched “White Christmas” which is a family tradition while we put together toys for our kids. We give them 3 gifts on Christmas morning, which are sitting out. Parker and Emery got the Rose Petal Cottage and Bradley got a Little Tykes golf set. They got a few more things, as well!

Christmas morning, the kids came down to see their loot and were so excited! I made some breakfast and after we ate, we opened our wrapped presents. I got Jason a private lesson at the indoor shooting range! We have driven by several times, but not actually owning a thing that shoots out a something that could hurt someone (think google won’t catch on??), we didn’t ever go in! We think it will be fun! He got me some fabulous gifts this year.
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He also gave me these great silver hoop earrings from James Avery.

For the whole day, we relaxed, opened and played with some toys, watched a movie with the kids and then after they went to bed, watched Ocean’s Thirteen.
I hope we created some new memories and traditions with the kids this year. Christmas morning, Parker got her read to me Bible and asked if we could read the birth of Jesus from it before we opened presents. Ahhh!

Christmas is not done for us, yet! We are celebrating tomorrow with Jason’s mom, her husband, his brother, Papaw and aunt and uncle! We have had so much fun and it keeps going!

On another note, many of you know that Jason injured his leg the Thursday before Christmas playing basketball and his been in a walking boot. We found out today that he has torn his Achilles and will be having surgery soon. We will keep you posted!