Posing for Christmas Pics

my mom made this dress for Cailey and I just love
to see Kinsey wearing it this Christmas!

Christmas Eve Jammies

our matching jammies! i LOVE it! (even Ephram has a pair)

Christmas Eve

(kinsey was napping)

Kinsey was happy to see Nonny and Poppy were there when
she woke up from her nap!

Uncle Matt and Braden

Uncle Matt was a climbing wall for the kiddos!
They LOVE playing with him.

sweet Abby and Nonny

all the grandkids (except Ephram)

Christmas Tradition...opening up one present Christmas Eve!
This year Daddy got matching jammies too:) (He said he felt
like Ralphie in A Christmas Story but wore them for the pics)

me and mom...she did ALL the cooking Christmas Eve!
We had the traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner...
Shrimp, Crab, Pasta, Crab Sauce, etc.

Kinsey and Braden eating crab!!

Nicky and Kinsey 'playing' the piano

playing while Poppy plays Christmas songs on the piano

Braden LOVES having everyone here...more people to play with!

Kinsey, Nonny, and Abby

This year we had a full house for Christmas! My brother and his family were here with their children, and Nonny and Poppy were here too. I just noticed that I don't have many pictures of Aunt Leigh...oops! They came on Christmas Eve and left the day after Christmas. Nonny and Poppy stayed until Sunday. The kids had fun playing with their cousins (who they haven't seen in a LONG time) and the grown ups had fun playing new games while the kids were sleeping.

I loved seeing the kids play together while Poppy played Christmas music (and the older kids sang the tunes). We didn't end up making it to church for Christmas Eve because of the dinner schedule but we did have some great family time.

Christmas Unwrappped

cailey and braden LOVE nutcrackers!

they liked listening to the carolers

hands on puppet nativity

Candyland

GIANT pop up nativity book...this was beautifully made

the kids LOVED the Frosty show!

carnival games

Braden couldn't wait to play the putt putt!


they even had a live nativity! they had chickens, a donkey,
a GIANT bunny (not sure they had those in Bethlehem:), and
a goat. kinsey loved all the animals except for the camel...because
it was a GIANT costumed character.

little budding star

Cailey sang Top 40 Christmas songs on the stage with the band
while Kinsey and Braden danced. After a while Braden got down but
Kinsey just stayed up there dancing and "singing".


Cailey could have stayed up there all night!

dancing with Daddy

a jumpy obstacle!

They had homemade gingerbread and molasses bread at the
'Village Bakery'

We went to Christmas Unwrapped at Crossroads Fellowship and it was AMAZING!! They had hundreds of lights strung on the ceiling, beautiful decorations, food, music, a live nativity, a Frosty show for the kids, carnival games, Jumpy's, a snow machine outside, and much more! We had so much fun and stayed the whole time...we loved it so much that we lost track of time and left at 9:00 pm! It was on Christmas Eve Eve (Dec 23)...we'll be adding this to our Christmas traditions if they have it again next year.