Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas with our families

Spending time with family is such a special part of Christmas.  Every year, we head to Eddie's extended family's for Christmas lunch and some more present opening.  His family does the "Dirty Santa" game where we all bring a miscellaneous gift and draw names to see who gets to open first.  The next person can either take the first person's gift or get a new one to open.  It can get pretty nasty sometimes if the gifts are very desirable.  We also all give our gifts to Eddie's Grandpa.  He is very special to Evan as his only living Great-Grandfather.  Later, we open presents with Eddie's mother, sister, and immediate family.  Evan always gets great presents from Grandma.  This year, she gave him a big Bumblebee Transformer that does all kinds of cool tricks.  Later, we head to Sherry's parents' house to spend the night.  This year, we got snow on Christmas night so Evan awoke to a winter wonderland.  Evan's Uncle, Aunt, and cousins arrived to open presents that afternoon so we had another Christmas.  Between playing in the snow and opening presents, Evan was a very tired little boy by night time! 

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Evan and his cousin Lilly coloring together. 


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Evan helps Great-Grandpa open a present.


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Evan gets a present at Grandma's.


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A new book about outer space!


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Getting his new Bumblebee Transformer!


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Giving Grandma a special present.


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It's a sweet book all about Evan!


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Cuddling with Papa at his house!


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A Christmas visit from special friends, Mrs. Diana and Mr. Steve!


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Lots more presents at Nana's and Papa's!


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Nana starts opening the presents.


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Little cousin Reade gets a present.


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Reade is a pro at opening presents since he just had a birthday!


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Cousin Emma is an ALMOST teenager.  She got a new ipod from Santa, and Aunt Sherry even gave her some sparkly makeup!


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Astronaut Evan gets a new space shuttle from Uncle Paul and Aunt Jessica!


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Cousin Lanny is a Star Wars nut!


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Little Reade gets a big present.


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The kids all loved eating Jesus's birthday cake!  Yum, chocolate!


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All of the kids in the snow.  I had to get one picture!

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