Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Christmas Day 2013

Well, I’m pretty sure I was just as excited on Christmas Eve as the boys…I had to make myself go to sleep!  It was like 2:30 before I finally was able to.  I  was loving just sitting on the couch looking at all the lights and the display of new toys that Santa had left for the boys.  Magical!

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Ryder’s goodies

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Maddox’s Goodies

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Milk and Cookies for Santa

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The boys were up about 8:30…we had to wake Ryder up.  They slept together in Maddox’s bed.

I videoed the first few minutes so I didn’t capture any first reactions with my camera.  But Maddox’s face was priceless….he was so excited!

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Santa hit the jackpot at TJ Maxx and found a lot of great SC Gamecock canvases for Maddox’s room!

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Ryder’s Panthers Helmet seems to be his favorite Christmas gift so far!!

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Digging into his stocking!

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Maddox’s favorite gift!

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Trying out the trick Mawmaw told them about the night before.  Sucking the juice thru the peppermint stick.

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Favorite stocking stuffer gift!! lol!

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Daddy opening his gift from the boys….he got a fit bit, shirts, SC hat and some socks.

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Do my boys have GREAT TASTE or what!!!  I was so excited over my new Hunter boots!! They also got me an under armour shirt and some socks!

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Wearing and holding their presents!

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Aunt Jean came over to see the boys and brought them some gifts.

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We are so thankful for her and what she means to our family.  I fixed a breakfast casserole, french toast casserole, liver mush and grits and we were so happy she and my parents were with us for Christmas brunch!

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Just for future reference…I snapped a shot of the stocking stuffers.

We spent the rest of the afternoon just hanging out and then went to the Caldwell family get together that evening.

Such a special day and I LOVE teaching the boys the true meaning of Christmas!  They ask everyday when Christmas will be back….my answer to them is we can celebrate the meaning of Christmas everyday!!

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Christmas Eve 2013

Christmas Eve is one of my favorite days of the year!  I love that my family comes to our house, I love eating steak and yummy food, going to my Mawmaw’s church for communion, playing dirty Santa and watching the kids open gifts!  I LOVE it all!!  The kids anticipation of Santa coming and waking up the next morning to new Christmas goodies is just too much fun!!

We start our evening around 5

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We always take pics at the end of the night so this year we decided the smart thing to do was to take them first thing…so we looked more fresh and not like we were ready for bed.

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Ryder and Maddox love their Unc Kev!!!  The boys were so excited all day about the arrival of our family!  They couldn’t wait for them to get there!

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Jay Jay reading to the boys…I love that Mawmaw is looking on in the background.

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Wolfie’s goodbye message!

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Love this pic of these three!!

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Let’s eat!!

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Baby Bottom!!!  Too cute!

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Cousins

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The Hallman’s

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The Taylors

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Sisters

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The ladies!

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It wouldn’t be Christmas without a goofy pic!

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This was such a precious moment.  Mawmaw gave the grandkids a little story about what Christmas was like when she was a child.  She told them they would have a shoe box under the tree and they would have some oranges and candy sticks in it and usually a small toy like a baby doll.  She gave the baby doll to Stella.  I love her stories and hearing what life was like when she was growing up!  Precious and priceless!

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Ryder got the costume and Maddox took it over!

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Flying from the chair!

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Mawmaw was so excited to get a new tv and tv stand!!

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I took LOTS of pics of Stella!!  She is just too sweet!!

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Playing dirty Santa!

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We were so excited last year to find out that Lauran and Nathan were expecting!!  This year we were so excited to have sweet Stella here with us!!

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Ryder had asked Santa for two things….Superman and a Big John Deere….I think they were fulfilled before Santa even came!!

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So Proud of his new bike!!

We are blessed!

Next up…Christmas morning!