Christmas Week 2010

We had a great week and a half of celebrating Christmas with our families! The girls have been completely spoiled by their grandparents, aunts, uncle, and us! We started the celebrating by traveling to Shreveport to be with Casey's family. We were there December 19-22. We had a ton of fun with them, and Kailey, especially, had fun playing with her cousin Caden!

Makenna's shirt says "All mommy wants for Christmas is a Silent Night"! SOOO true! :)




On Monday (the 20th) we met Casey's sister and her two boys at Sci-Port Discovery Center. They had a ton of fun playing with all the various displays.






On Tuesday, we had a "baking day". The kids made Rice Krispie houses, and sugar cookies. We also had a family gathering with part of Casey's extended family. It was a lot of fun to just hang out, eat, and play games.










On Wednesday, we opened gifts. The girls got way too many gifts for me to name! Kailey has been having so much fun playing with all the gifts she received. Makenna's big gift from Gran and Papa was the lamb critter chair from Pottery Barn Kids. She LOVES it!





On Wednesday night we traveled back to Temple to spend a couple days as a family celebrating Christmas. On Thursday we just relaxed all day, did a bit of shopping, and then drove through a Christmas light park that night. Then on Christmas Eve, we opened gifts that morning, I baked cookies and cupcakes all day, and then we went to our Christmas Eve service that night. Kailey's big gift was the Bitty Twin dolls from American Girl, however the gift she simply cannot quit talking about, is the claw! She always plays with this claw when we go to Target, so we decided to get one and put it in her stocking. It was $2, and by far her favorite gift!








Casey was in charge of the service this year, and so our family was in charge of lighting the advent candle. It went well, although watching both girls by myself during the service was a task!
(Especially considering the mood Kailey was in, as you can tell!)






We left after the Christmas Eve service, to travel to have Christmas with my family in Kingwood. My grandparents, aunt, and uncles came for lunch on Christmas Day, then after a nap we opened Christmas gifts. Kailey got lots of fun things to go with her Bitty Twin dolls, including my sisters' American Girl Doll bunk bed, they played with when they were little!




In this picture, Kailey wanted to "take a picture with baby Jesus" so she went and grabbed Him from the nativity scene. haha.



After we opened gifts, Casey had to drive back to Temple, because he had to preach on Sunday morning! (the 26th). After he preached he drove back to Kingwood, and we stayed there until Tuesday, the 28th. We just hung out, ate out, and had a good time with my sisters (2 of whom live out of state). The only bummer was that Makenna got another UTI while were there, which made for some not so fun nights!

We had a very Merry Christmas, and are very thankful to be back home safely! We hope you had a great Christmas as well!

Thanks for reading this monsterous post! I will post Makenna's 7 month post soon, because she turned 7 months on Christmas day!