Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Hope everybody had an good time with family over Christmas. I am sharing all of our Christmas photos in one post because I finally have 10 minutes where Jensen is asleep and Ryan and Eva are out running errands! We had a good couple of days with family, although I realized as I was uploading photos that I didn't get many pictures of anybody other than the kids. Next year I will need to be better at that.

Here is our Christmas starting with the annual cousins picture at Nana and Papa's house! We always spend the night before Christmas Eva at their house all together and then wake up and celebrate Christmas Eve morning. I always remember the year that Kiersi was one year old and Ryan and I weren't married yet so she shared a room and slept in the crib next to me. She woke up really early so I just snuggled with her until I was ready for everybody to wake up. And now she is 9 years old and my little man was the one in the crib this year. 

Mallory and Eva ready for gifts! 4 is a fun age for Christmas because they start to remember traditions.

Before I move on the the presents let's go back to the night before...to my sweet little man sleeping in the crib beside me. I put him down by 7:30PM the night before. He is normally my easy going, good sleeper...but he must have been excited about all the presents to come because he was WIDE AWAKE for most of the night. Usually Eva is the wild card who won't settle down and sleep but she actually did much better this year, so Jensen pulled the old switch-er-roo on us. Fun times traveling with babies. Thankfully Nana helped out a lot so we could get breaks to sleep for a bit. Maybe one year my kids will both be easy sleepers for Christmas?

Mallory got to open the first gift! Not sure how that happened because our neice Kayden had told me the night before that I had the winning ticket for the first gift, but I guess I will overlook it this time...We were so excited to give Mallory a Glitz and Glam Barbie. You can even change her nail polish color with cold and warm water! Okay, maybe I gave her this gift with the hopes that one day I could come play....anytime Mallory :) 

Jensen was most excited to play with paper and chew on bows. Eva got to help him unwrap most of his gifts. I promise now that we are home he really likes his new toys!

 Hmm, what could Eva's big gift be under that sheet? I love that little kids really don't know when they look at something like that.

Ryan's grandmother, Mamaw was there with us for Christmas Eve morning for the first time since I became a Bradly. It was sweet having her there and I hope she really enjoyed getting to see the kids be excited.

Buddy got an awesome pop up tent and tunnel that he played in right away. I love this because he and Eva have spent hours laughing and playing together in it every day since.

 Eva got her first big girl bike with training wheels and is already a pro at riding it!

Christmas Eve night we went to service at church. Ryan's mom had given us a bag of Ryan's old baby clothes so I dressed Jensen in one of his old outfits.

Christmas morning. Santa came! He left an Elsa head for Eva and a lawn mower for Jensen. I love the magic of Santa and hope my kids can enjoy it together for years to come!

 Eva got a fun Barbie jet. Barbie and her friends have taken many tropical vacations already.

Me with my girl. She actually woke up reallllllyyy early for the first time because she was so excited. We went ahead and did Christmas with her and then let Jensen open his gifts when he woke up later.

Eva helped him with his stocking.

 I really like his wooden train. I got this at a consignment sale back in the fall and have been looking forward to giving it to him. He can take all the blocks off to stack and knock over too.

And he got a push walker. Okay, this was a regift from Eva that had been stored in the closet but he was happy to see it!

We made pancakes for breakfast and added sprinkles and whip cream, since it was Jesus' birthday!

My parents came over in the afternoon to play and have Christmas dinner. This was the only photo I got. Yeah, I'm lame. My kids were just over pictures and we were enjoying our relaxation. But we do love Mamy and Baba!

Some fun with my new selfie stick!

 My aunt gave Eva and her baby doll matching pjs.

 Eva's big gift from my parents was a dollhouse!!! This is actually my old dollhouse that my grandmother bought the day I was born. 32 years later and it is still beautiful...a bit worn but my mom tried to clean it up a bit and Eva loves it!

Thankful for Christmas memories with my littles.