Christmas

Christmas this year was great fun and exhausting...but a good kind of tired.

On Christmas Eve, we made Reindeer Chow for the neighbors, cookies for us and Santa and a pie for dessert later that evening. Yum! Thank you Bakerella ! Can you tell I like to bake more than I do cook?

My sweet friend gave this to us for Christmas. Isn't it just too adorable. She did such a great job! And the cookies were scrumptious!









C & L did a great job rolling the cookie dough into balls...with no help from Mommy. Yes, I was able to step aside and let them do it.



Christmas Eve evening we went to my parents' house to have dinner, spend time with family and open gifts. It's always been the tradition in my family to do Christmas on Christmas Eve night. We would eat, spend time with family and friends and stay up until midnight to open gifts.
I wish I would have taken a picture of the food. We had turkey (my mom makes the best turkey, so flavorful and juicy), rice dressing, cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes and green bean casserole. Yum!
My sweet boys:






An attempt to get a picture of all 3 boys:







Oh well...at least it captures the moment in time, which is great.

Then, it was off to open gifts.







Some photos with family:





After family, food and fun, we came home and got ready for Christmas morning. Thankfully, we didn't have to do too much to prepare. We were tired and ready for some sleep!

We set out a snack for Santa. The papers you see here are notes that C & L wrote for the elves. Cute!





Christmas Morning!









So tired...



My parents came over for Christmas dinner. My husband smoked a turkey, which turned out really good. I made some sides...they were okay. I totally forgot to take pictures. I think I was just so tired, by brain wasn't functioning properly. ;)

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!