In years past I've separated our Christmas celebrations into different posts, but let's face it, I am a busy mama this year. It's taken me almost a week to even get my photos on the computer so I figured I would just make one long post. It's a lot of photos, but if you knew how many photos I've taken over the past week you would give me a gold star for narrowing it down to just these. We had a wonderful Christmas week and it all started last Sunday.
Sunday afternoon we went to Nana and Papa's house to celebrate with Ryan's aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmother. The adults do a gift card exchange and these two girls couldn't wait to "help" us unwrap the presents.
Then the kids had all drawn names to exchange cousin presents with each other. Waiting to give and get presents one at a time is a hard concept for little kids but they were so patient and sweet! Also at one point I'm pretty sure Eva gave up and walked away for a bit.
Aunt Janice, Nana, Aunt Sherry and Mamaw. Thankful for the way these ladies love their family.
Our family with Mamaw. Eva was so sweet to give Mamaw lots of hugs and kisses.
We stayed the night Sunday and Monday, and then finally it was Christmas Eve morning! We woke up and did presents with all of our Bradley family.
Eva with Kiersi. I love little girl giggles.
Kayden, Eva, Kiersi, and Mallory. This photo makes me laugh because it looks like Eva can't sit up on her own yet and that Mallory is about 3 or 4. Really they are the same age :)
Kiersi read the Christmas story this year from a storybook version of the Bible. It's so cool to hear what a great reader she is now that she's in 2nd grade. She was only 1 1/2 years old at my first Bradley Christmas.
How do you keep two 2 year old still? Put them in a gift bag together!
Eva's big gift from Nana and Papa was her first tricycle. Every time we saw Santa she would say "Bike!!!" Isn't it awesome that Santa told Nana and Papa that was what Eva wanted so they could get that for her? I love how all that Christmas magic works!
Lots of bikes! Nana and Papa got each other bikes. They also got Kiersi and Kayden bikes. Mallory brought over the bike she got for her birthday so everybody could ride together. I guess Mallory was a little tired of the paparazzi at this point :)
Christmas Eva night we went to church and then came home. We followed our tradition of having a Chicken Express picnic by the tree and opening 1 small gift each.
Santa brought presents! Eva was surprised that Santa brought her a play kitchen and filled her stocking!
Eva loves all things Toy Story so Ryan got her a Buzz Lightyear!
Our family Christmas photo! We hosted my parents and grandparents Christmas Day for dinner.
Mamy got Eva a pink vacuum cleaner since she always likes to help me vacuum.
She got right to work cleaning. Who needs more presents when they could be vacuuming the floors?!
She also got a Winny the Pooh that used to be mine when I was little.
Check out that biker girl wearing her new shades!
Thankful for 4 generations together - my mom (Mamy), Eva, my grandma Dede, and me.
And on my dad's side - my Dad (Baba), me, Eva, and Grandpa Hank (at 93 years young and still hip)
We are so blessed to have families that are so loving. I appreciate their generosity and truly am grateful that we got to spend so much time with all of them.
I love our Christmas Eve morning tradition! So much fun!
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