Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

We had such fun holidays for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!!

On Christmas Eve we got together with Toby's family over at our house. We had a wonderful dinner together and a lot of fun hanging out, watching the kids play, and eating. Then was on to the gift opening.

All of the kids had a great time opening their gifts and then playing with their's, and other's gifts afterwards. I think Makenna was the biggest culprit of "sharing" (a.k.a. stealing) other cousin's gifts.

(Makenna playing with cousin Shayne's lightsaber while scoping out the other gifts)

We all had a great time together and everyone had fun.

On Christmas day Makenna woke us up at her usual 7:00am hour and we all got ready for our day by showering and dressing (I know this will be the last year that we can ever do this BEFORE we open gifts). Even more amazingly Makenna didn't even notice her gifts until grandma and papa Secord arrived at our house around 8:30am. Makenna was so enthralled with her new doll house toy that she received from her Aunt Renee and Uncle Micah the night before that she didn't even notice all of the gifts for her to open in the other room.

When grandma and papa arrived we ate our oh-so delicious breakfast casserole, coffee cake, and orange juice. We read the Christmas story and then it was finally gift time. We all opened our stocking gifts,

Makenna opened her Santa gift (a dolly pack-n-play, bouncer, and high chair set),

and in a flurry of paper she opened all of her other gifts too.

After gift opening, Makenna was able to play and relax for an hour before we all hopped in the car and went to see great grandma and great grandpa and wish them a Merry Christmas. We visited with them for a couple of hours and then headed back home again to relax for another hour before going over to my mom and Jim's house for more fun with family and gift opening. I do have to mention one of Makenna's favorite gifts, besides the doll house, was also a dolly crib that Auntie Becca and Uncle Shawn made for her. They are so talented!!

We had a very full two days but enjoyed every last second with family.