[Christ}mas 2015

Christmas was fun, fun, fun with very warm weather but very fun with our two little toddlers this year. They are understanding everything around them, they understand Santa, they understand presents & they understand family. We started off Christmas Eve by going to my Mam Maw & Pap Pap's house to join the rest of our family for lunch.. the girls remember all of their names now & will ask about them on occasion since that day. They loved up on my cousins this time, & remembered Mam Maw's room full of toys, & of course they remembered their Pap Pap who gives them donuts & cookies when he sees them, their favorite! We spent a few hours enjoying family time with that side, ate delicious food, & opened presents. It was nice seeing Pap Pap finally get an upgraded TV after all of these years... Yes, I got a video of his excitement. ;)

After we left Mam Maw & Pap Pap's house, we headed home so I could make our favorite Buffalo Chicken Dip.. seriously the best - & then headed over to my Uncle Craig & Aunt Shelley's for our usual Heironimus family get together that night where we also ate, enjoyed family time, opened presents and even had a visit from Santa Clause who brought his bag full of goodies for the kids. After all of that fun, we played the most popular game on the shelf right now  - Pie Face -

& it was hilarious. We finally headed home around 9:30-10:00 pm so we could bake cookies for Santa & wait for him to arrive.

 

Christmas Morning - Santa has arrived.. & left footprints aka "Paw Prints" according to the girls..

Christmas morning after opening all of our presents from Santa, we headed to my Aunt Betty & Uncle Jimmy's house to open some presents from them. Afterwards, we went to the girls MiMi & Paw Paw's house for some yummy home made breakfast & more presents. The girls knew every time we went to a new place they were either eating or getting presents.. so they just patiently waited at each house for the same thing as the last house.

Finally, after Mimi & Paw Paw's we only had one mores stop which was just to visit Aunt Cindy & Uncle Steve's house before we all headed over for the Hayslette family Christmas dinner for our final stop of the day. We ate (again), we laughed, we opened presents, & we cried because Christmas was different this year without the girls Great Maw Maw.. We all received an amazing gift that we will all hold close to us forever. Christmas was her favorite just like it was my Grandmothers favorite as well. I am forever grateful for having 8 years of getting to know you.

We will love & miss you forever.

 

After a long day of running around we finally got to go home and let the girls enjoy their toys while we called their SC Nana (JD's mother) to wish her a Merry Christmas & let the girls talk to her about Santa & presents, of course. Afterwards, we got in our PJ's and let their Nana here come over so we could exchange gifts. Once again, more tears (from her) as she opened up her picture frame with a cute little saying about becoming a Nana. It was a great Christmas and we are very blessed.

Regardless of how many presents you receive this time of year, never forget the true meaning & reason for the season as well as enjoying the time we do have with family while they are still here. 

<3

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, also have a 

Happy New Year! 

x0x0 Brooke