We left West Point Monday afternoon and drove the two hours to my parent's house. My sister and her crew were already there and the kids wasted no time tearing up the playroom and having a blast together!
They all had fun trying on our old dance costumes!!!
The next day was Christmas Eve. Such a good looking group of kids before church!
My parents and their fabulous 5!
We always read The Night Before Christmas and the Christmas story from the bible every Christmas Eve. Someone gave this book to me for my 2nd Christmas so it's been read for 31 Christmases in a row! Super special about this night...? Bryce read the book to us. What an awesome experience!
That night my parents were brave and took the 4 older kids to the shed to sleep! It was cold but we had plenty of blankets for pallets (and an air mattress and futon). The kids love getting to do this on Christmas Eve!
Settling in to watch a movie before bed.
The next morning we woke up and waited and waited and waited. It seemed like it took forever for them to come up to the house from the shed! When they finally did (it was only 7:20 or so!) we couldn't wait to watch them find out what Santa left for them! CeCe got her American Girl doll that she named Laura and Bryce got a Wes Welker Bronco's jersey, NFL book and MS State alumni football cards.
For Jude and Jasper, this was the year of the costume! Those boys love to dress up in anything and everything. Santa brought them a few and we gave them more!
All 5 kids in their matching PJs I made them.
After a delicious breakfast of waffles and grilled sausage, it was time to open presents. We had plenty of helpers this year!
Bryce is very into college fight songs right now. He got two fight songs CD's this year (the same CD actually so he now has one in the playroom and one in the car!) and we played it after presents and Cappy demonstrated the proper marching band march!
Everyone stayed healthy this year and everyone was happy (most of the time!). It was a GREAT Christmas!
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