Merry Christmas! (2011)

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 

This year is the first we've really played up Santa. Last year Caleb was still too young to understand what was going on. Santa left a few things in each of our stockings and one gift for the boys to share. (Aaron will have to wait until he's a little older to enjoy!) He (Santa, that is) decided not to put together the big toy because he knew how much fun Caleb would have helping his daddy put it together. (Amazing how Santa knows these things) 

Checking out the foundation

The inspector

Helping with fence posts (picture of the whole house together is further down....we forgot to take a "finished product" picture!)

Aaron's toy from Mommy and Daddy

The boys had some time to play with their presents and then family began to arrive. As usual, we had a ton of food, but a ton of laughs to go with it. We keep it pretty formal around here... fine china (paper plates) and the good silver (plastic) are necessities. We took our time eating and then moved on to presents. Jonathan attempted to capture some of the chaos, we don't believe in taking turns : )

From left going clockwise - Papa, GG, Derrill, Katy, Thomas & fam, Sarah & fam, Grandma Mal, Grandma Deb (with Hannah Joy), Pops, and Caleb & I (Aaron was napping and Jonathan was photographer) 

After presents we let the kids play and tortured babies while taking a million pictures. Good times! 

Kaylee (left) and Hannah Joy (right) These are my two nieces born a day apart.  Poor Hannah Joy was the tortured one!

The kids upstairs - we turned off the lights and turned on a movie in hopes to rest since they all missed their naps (Caleb was on the floor and Lana and Eli were in Caleb's new house)

Caleb and Kaylee hanging out - yes, Kaylee was totally passed out!

Love the arm leaning on Kaylee's knee!

Hanging out

Still sleeping - how precious is she?!?

Aunt Katy playing with Aaron

I'm pretty sure he was trying to figure out how to eat those fingers...nom nom nom! 

I hope everyone enjoyed their  Christmas as much as we did! We're totally wiped out and ready for bed, but it was a wonderful day! We're off to Christmas #3 tomorrow with Jonathan's dad and are having a New Year's Day get together at our house next weekend, so the holiday isn't officially over yet!