Christmas in review part 1

On Thursday December 23 we continued our Christmas celebrations. Mr. C's parent's were having family night at their house, so we joined them for soup, sandwiches, and good company. This is a tradition of Mr. C's step mom's family, as they have gotten together on the night before Christmas Eve to watch a movie, but now we don't really watch a movie as more we just sit around and visit and enjoy adult beverages and watch the kiddos play, and sometimes a good game of pool or suffleboard but no one played any games this year. We also exchanged our gift with Grandma H this night since we would not be joining them on Christmas Eve as Christmas Eve would be spent at my Grandma C's house. Mr. C and I woke up on Christmas Eve to it snowing, they were calling for snow but it was not supposed to start until later, so we were surprised to find it snowing, Mr. C left to take the skid loaders down to where they plow snow, he returned around noontime, I made beer bread and a dip to take to my Grandma's and started getting us ready around 3:00pm. Luckily since Mr. C was hadn't been called out to plow snow yet, I was able to still go to our Christmas. I packed our bags, gathered our presents and Mr. C packed the truck and we were headed out to Grandma's by about 4:45pm. We arrived just in time to join everyone for dinner and not long after we got done eating, Mr. C got the phone call to go plow snow. So we made sure somone cold take me to his parent's house after we were done and he took our stuff over there before leaving to go plow snow.

Here is lil miss C in her Christmas Dress at my Grandma C's house.

4 generations on Christmas Eve: my dad, Grandma C, lil miss C & me.

My parents were going to midnight mass and we were planning on joining them, but since it was snowing and the roads were icy & Mr. C was called out to plow snow, we did not join them for mass, instead my brother took us over to Mr. C's parents house and we settled in and went to sleep. We did not know exactly when and if Mr. C would be joining us and luckily he crawled into bed with me about 1:30am. Since 2004 we have spent Christmas Eve at his parents house and opened presents with his family on Christmas morning. We are the only ones who are still spending the night and will continue to do so until his parents tell us they don't want us to anymore. His brother & girls & sissy & boys joined us around 8:30am and we started opening presents. 

Lil miss C with Mama & Papa on Christmas morning.  

Lil miss beautiful making sure Papa was doing a good job of holding lil miss C.

Taking turns opening presents and playing with the new toys.

Lil miss C spent the morning in Papa's arms as Mr. C & I took turns opening her presents for her.

Mama & Papa opening a special present from Santa, we took the kiddos and did a grandchildren photo for them.

Mr. C received a special present that he opened after we were all done opening all of our other presents. His parents have had this frog that sings jingle bells for many many years and Mr. C absoutly hates it and trys to hide it from anyone playing it when he is around. Well this year he received a frog of his very own for us to have at our house. Here he is opening it, can't u tell he is just thrilled!

Mama & papa got this for all the grandkids that will stay at mama's & papa's house for them to play with. K man will have a gator full of girls when B & lil miss C are old enough to ride along.

So K man and lil miss beautiful did not only want to play with all their new toys but they also had to check out lil miss C & B's birthday cakes they got.

After breakfast we headed down to AK's for Christmas with Grandma W. We visited with them and exchanged our presents and were headed home around 1:30ish. Once we arrived home and let our doggies out, restocked our fire and unpacked the truck, we all took a much needed nap and then celebrated our Christmas together. Mr. C had already given me my present and I had given him 2 of 3 of his presents last weekend as he used them to cut & grind up a deer and I wanted to wear my for pictures and Christmas as he upgraded my diamond stud earrings that he bought me last year. We have decided that after we spend Christmas morning with his parents and visit with his Grandma that we will come home and have our Christmas in the afternoon/evening on Christmas Day. We had a relaxing evening at home and then on Sunday morning Mr. C went hunting for a few short hours and I went after Christmas sale shopping with my mom and 2 of my 3 sisters, just 3 more Christmas celebrations left.