12.26.2012

Christmas day

After opening presents at home we headed for Hickory Ridge for Christmas with the Gibson side of the family for lunch and MORE presents! We had a good time visiting and the kids had fun running around like crazy! Stratton loves playing with his cousin Cooper! We ended up leaving earlier than we usually do, do in part to the bad weather! It was snowing and sleeting! BUT we did have a white Christmas afterall!!

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The GIRLS!! Alexandra, Lainey, Isabella and Arden!

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Attempt at a pic of all the great-grands

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Piles of presents!!

Christmas Morning! Our first as a family of 4!

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READY for presents!!

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Good Morning!

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Trying to get a picture of them both-impossible!

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She was a happy girl!

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Love her expression! Cracks me up!

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Opening his Lincoln Logs- the only thing he asked Santa for!

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Best picture of the day! I can’t wait to show this to his girlfriend someday!

We had a great morning. We slept later than I figured. Stratton got us up around 8 am. Of course I had been up at 5 am feeding Arden and had gone back to sleep, so I was out of it! Jarrod had to wake me up so I could get the camera before Stratton tore into presents! He was so excited to see what Santa left him! This boy is so into anything about Cars (the movie character stuff) right now, and Santa hooked him up with all kinds of Cars stuff! He also left Stratton a letter, which he thought was so cool! And he got his Lincoln Logs! That was the first thing he wanted to play with! I love this age, Stratton is so excited about everything! He did tell me after opening several presents “Mommy, I’m just tired of opening presents”. Haha! I guess that’s a good thing! Stratton also got a Spiderman scooter and helmet, from us, which he loves he is also really into Spiderman right now. I think he likes the helmet more than the scooter, though! Arden just chilled in Jarrod’s lap while Stratton opened all his presents, then he helped open some of hers. Jarrod and I also had a good Christmas- I think we both did pretty good for each other this year! Sometimes it’s hard after being together for almost 12 years! I love Christmas so much and tried to enjoy each moment this year, especially our Christmas morning together as just us. But it seems like it all just goes by so fast and like always we are always rushing to get to our next stop as the Christmas events continue!