Christmas Twenty Ten

Our Christmas celebrations started when Nana, Granddaddy & Auntie Ramie arrived on Friday, December 16th. We all headed to the kids school to see Carter and his friends sing Rudolph in their Winter Wonderland Performance. Friday evening after the kids went to bed we unloaded all of the presents from Nana & Granddaddy's car - so much for going light on the presents.

We spent Saturday opening presents and playing... lots and lots of playing.


Saturday evening we enjoyed a very non-traditional Christmas dinner.... steak, salad and potatoes - delish! I'll take that over ham any day.

The following Thursday Grandma and Auntie Mallory joined us for round two. We opened gifts, ate and drank well into the evening hours! Mom, Mallory, Josh and Carter played numerous rounds of hungry hungry hippo. Just the sound of it brought back all kinds of great childhood memories. So much fun!


Josh, Carter, Kenzie and I enjoyed a nice quite Christmas Eve at home - just the four of us. Carter and I decorated cookies for Santa while Josh and Kenzie relaxed.


Before bed we all said farewell to Henry - till next year.....

On Christmas morning Carter played in his room for almost thirty minutes before we think he realized Santa was scheduled to come the night before. When it clicked he was like most kids are on Christmas morning! Overly anxious to see what was under the tree. A tradition in our family was always the kids could open their stocking stuff while Mom & Dad had their coffee... Josh and I decided we would continue that tradition. Carter had a blast opening his - and of course even helped Mackenzie with hers.


Now it is time for the good stuff.....

Dinosaurs!!

In all honesty, Santa took it easy this year. The kids just don't need anything... really, have you seen the playroom?!? So, instead of a lot of gifts (the picture is deceiving), we put money in their college funds!

On Christmas evening Mem & Pep joined us for one last Christmas celebration. They were last, but certainly not least. We had a good ol' time eating all kinds of yummy munchies along with some good ol' fashion meat pies.


Carter was super excited to get the boat he 'really' wanted... I think he thought Santa forgot - turns out he just brought it to the wrong house!

We had an added bonus - the morning after Christmas we woke up to about 7 inches of snow in Apex. It was beautiful. Dad and Trish stayed an extra night and we had a blast playing in the snow... well, some of us played - others slept.

Now I'm really glad I bought that sled when I did......

Our house snow covered. Beautiful.

2010 was certainly a year to remember! Here's to hoping Twenty Eleven brings everyone health and happiness.

If you want to see all (yes, there are more) of the Christmas pictures - click here!!