We spent the actual Christmas weekend at David’s parents' house, along with his sisters and their families. It is always a full house and we have a great time. The cousins all get to play together, the adults get to catch up, and grandpa and grandma have all of their grandkids in one place. Being able to get the whole family together is a blessing.
One of our favorite traditions is leaving the grandkids with grandpa and grandma while the adult siblings and their spouses get a night out together. It is usually just for a meal, but it gives us time to visit, laugh, and take a break from the kids. We started this tradition a while back and have continued it no matter what the weather has been like. Of course, we can’t complain about the weather this year: it was 40+ degrees everyday through the weekend.
The kids enjoyed their time together, but they also enjoyed the gift opening. Everyone wanted to play with each other's gifts just as much as they enjoyed their own. We opened gifts on Christmas Eve, so they had several days to play with them before coming home.
Each of the girls opening one of their gifts. They won the award for getting the gifts with the most pieces. Almost every gift they opened had a lot of pieces to it.
Everyone opened their stockings on Christmas morning before we went to church. After church and lunch, the pastor of David’s parents’ church rode their horses over to the house so the kids could see them. All the kids loved it.
Bria and some of the cousins looking at one of the horses.
Bentley looking at the pastor’s dog with Aunt S.
What a great holiday! I don’t know if I said this in the last post, in case I didn’t:
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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